Executive Privilege
Both men claimed privilege
The phrase "executive privilege" doesn't appear in the U.S. Constitution. It wasn't commonly used until the 1950s, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower's attorney general, William Rogers, used it to fend off congressional commie-hunter Joseph McCarthy. Yet the idea behind the phrase goes all the way back to George Washington, who set the presidential precedent in this area as in so many others.
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