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Oral History of James Hamilton
Index
Abernathy, George, 16
Abrams, Floyd, 253
Accountability Review Board (ARB), 260-61, 263-64
See also Benghazi
Accuracy in Media, 204-05, 207
Accuracy in Media v. the National Park Service, 204
Advocate: On History’s Front Lines from Watergate to the Keating Five, Clinton Impeachment, and Benghazi by James Hamilton, 287
Alaska Senate impeachment proceedings Governor, 161
Albert, Lee, 25
Albosta, Donald, 137-38, 147-49
Ethics in Government Act, 148
All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, 58
Allbaugh, Joe, 238
Anestos, Harry, 91-93
Anthony, Sheila, 205, 209
ARB See Accountability Review Board
Armitage, Richard, 252, 254
Armstrong, Scott, 54
Arnall, Ellis, 87
Arnold, Richard, 179, 286
Arsenault, Joseph, 163
Ashcroft, John, 252, 257
attorney client privilege, 187-88, 246, 288
Babcock, Barbara, 18
Baird, Zoe, 190, 229
Baker, Howard, 45-48, 57-58, 289
Baker, James (Jim), 137. 141-42, 151
Barker, Bernard, 40, 82
Bates, John, 64, 183
Bell, Griffin, 131-33
Benghazi, 149, 260, 263, 265, 288
Accountability Review Board (ARB), 260-61, 263-64
hearings, 259, 261, 270
Select Committee, 267-68
Bennett, Bob, 109-10, 113-14, 120-23, 125, 128, 134
Bernhard, Berl, 31
Bernstein, Carl, 58, 63
Bickel, Alex, 17
Biden, Joe, 278, 285-86, 290
Bittker, Boris, 17
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Black, William, 119
Blackmun, Harry, 277
Blind Ambition by John Dean, 57
Blood Sport by James Stewart, 190
Bolten, Josh, 64
Bonds, Barry, 241
Boras Corporation, 241
Bork, Robert, 17, 71
Boudin, Mike, 34
Boyce, Gene, 54
Bradlee, Ben, 58
Brady v. Maryland, 197
Braver, Rita, 140
Bress, Dave, 99
Breyer, Stephen, 179, 211, 277, 283-84, 286
Bromley, Bruce, 26
Brown, Sherrod, 280
Burdick, Quentin, 93
Bush administration, 64
Bush, George W., 140, 248, 258
Butterfield, Alexander, 51, 54-60, 78, 290
Buzhardt, Fred, 55, 78
Carter administration, 15, 139
Carter debate briefing book, 141, 144-45, 148, 151
See also Debategate
Casey, Bill, 102, 138, 141-49, 151
Chaffetz, Jason, 267
Cheney, Richard (Dick), 144, 259
Christopher, Warren, 179, 276
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 215
Clark, Ramsey, 26
Clemens, Roger, 242
Clinton administration, 210, 230, 237, 249, 255, 261
Clinton campaign, 179, 226, 236
Clinton, Bill, 113, 171, 178-79, 210, 226-29, 231-32, 235, 237-38, 249, 275-77, 283, 286
Foster suicide, 181-87, 201
impeachment, 123
Swidler & Berlin v. United States, 187
Travelgate, 181-82, 190
Clinton, Hillary, 107, 178, 182, 186, 260-62, 264-68, 277-80
Cochran, Thad, 257
Coe, Doug, 107, 111
The Fellowship, 107
Coleman, Bill, 32
Collins, Susan, 290
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Colson, Charles (Chuck), 55, 70, 260
Combat—My Twelve Years in the Senate by Warren Rudman, 128
Comey, James, 252
Congressional Government by Woodrow Wilson, 44
Congressional Investigations by James Hamilton, 66, 270
Corbin, Paul, 143, 151
Cox, Archibald (Archie), 36, 42-44, 49-50, 62, 71, 77
subpoena for tapes, 62
Cox, Hugh, 26, 30, 34
Cox, William Harold, 31
Cranston, Alan, 117-18, 122-24, 126-28, 134
CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President), 51
Culvenhouse, A.B., 285
Cummings, Elijah, 267
Cutler. Lloyd, 149-50
Dash, Sam 42, 48-51, 56, 60, 70, 72, 82, 85, 164, 259-60 289-90
Chief Counsel, Watergate Committee, 35, 38, 162
Chief counsel: Inside the Ervin Committee–the untold story of Watergate by Sam Dash, 45
Davis v. Passman, 215
Dayton News, 199
DC Circuit Historical Society, 189
Dean, John, 48-50, 53, 56, 74, 79, 139, 271, 290
confirmed that Nixon was implicated, 52
death threat, 175,
immunity, 42-45, 50, 65, 75
White House Counsel, 42
Dean, Maureen (Mo), 56
Debategate, 101, 136, 151
dirty tricks in elections, 288
DeConcini, Dennis, 116-19, 121, 124, 126, 128, 130, 134
Derfner, Armand, 31
Dershowitz, Alan, 122, 127
Doar, John, 29, 80
Dodd, Chris, 226
Dodd, Tom, 195
Dole, Bob, 106, 112-13, 181
Donaldson, Sam, 199
Dorsen, David, 35, 39, 82
Douglas, Paul, 134
Dowd, John, 122-23, 129-30
Drisell, Lefty, 14
Durenberger, David, 101-05, 112, 116, 121, 129, 271
leaking classified information, 105-06
Piranha Press, 108-09, 114
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Eardley, Carl, 91. 93-94, 114
Earnhardt, Dale, 208, 212
Earnhardt, Theresa, 208
Eastland, Jim, 132
Eckenrode, Jack, 251-52, 254-55
Edmisten, Rufus, 36, 38, 54, 82
Edwards, John, 277, 281-83
Ehrlichman, John, 41, 48, 52, 75-76, 78-79, 290
Elkhart Truth (newspaper), 137
Ely, John Hart, 25
Ervin, Sam, 36-39, 44-45, 48, 52, 58-59, 70, 83, 149, 259
Espy, Mike, 116
Ethics in Government Act, 138, 148, 150-51
Evans, Rowland, 246
Favish, Allan, 200-01, 204, 206, 208, 210-12
FBI, 103, 139-40, 144, 174, 185, 206,s 251, 255, 257
Foster suicide, 183
gift of Indian headdress, 238-40
Travelgate, 181
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 118
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 237-39
Fielding, Fred, 36, 46-47, 51, 55, 60, 68, 78, 82, 143, 227, 236
White House counsel, 139-140
Fifth Amendment, 215
First Amendment, 213, 253, 256
Fiske, Bob,183, 185, 190
Fitzgerald, Pat, 252-54, 257-58
FOIA See Freedom of Information Act
Foley, Tom, 228
Food for Peace Program, 216
Ford, Bill, 99, 148-49
Foster, Lisa, 184, 203, 209, 212
Foster, Vince, 178-85, 189-202, 207-08, 212, 277, 288
flooding (psychological term for depression), 191
suicide, 180, 183, 185, 200, 203, 208
Fowler, Don, 224-26, 228, 230
Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 224
NSC (United States National Security Council), 233
Frampton, George, 162, 165
Freedman, Gordon, 39
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 202, 204, 210, 212-13
exemptions, 201, 208-09
right to privacy, 211
Gambling With History by Laurence Barrett, 136
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Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, 240
Garrison, Lloyd, 26
Gergen, David, 138, 141-42, 145-46
Gesell, Gerhard, 26, 30, 32-33, 38, 63-64
Ginsburg Feldman (law firm), 224
Ginsburg, David, 99, 215
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 179, 195, 197, 277, 283-84
Glenn, John, 117, 120, 122, 125-26
Gore, Al, 46, 227, 232-33, 237, 249, 277
Gowdy, Trey, 267-68
Grand Inquest by Telford Taylor, 66
Gravel, Camille, 217, 221-22
Gray, Ed, 118, 122, 124-25
Green, Micah, 152
Green, Tom, 75, 99, 113, 122-23
Greene, Harold, 150
Gribbon, Dan, 26, 30
Griswold, Erwin, 100
Gurney, Ed, 44, 47
Haldeman, Bob, 41, 48, 52, 54, 60, 75-76, 78, 290
Halford, Rick, 167
Hamilton, Erik (son), 27-28
Hamilton, James
great great grandfather, 2
great, great, great grandfather, 1
Hamilton, James – Personal
Army
Germany, 21
Honest John batallion, 22
Third Infantry Division Inspector General, 23
bleeding ulcer, 142
boy scout, 11
brother (deceased), 9
Chester High School, 12
chorus and band, 11
Chester SC, 7
segregated, 10-11
coached tennis, 20
Davidson College, 12-13, 196, 301
Davidson Alumni Journal, 199
newspaper sports editor, 15
ROTC, 21
tennis team, 14
father, 7
Wofford College, 12
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London School of Economics Master’s in Law, 25
mother, 8
segregation, 15, 248
societal benefits of the law, 302
sports, 11
Vietnam, 23-24, 117
Yale Law School, 13, 17, 301
preference for black letter law courses, 18
Hamilton, James – Professional
Ashland and Koch, 110
baseball players and steroids, 265-66, 268, 270
Clinton, Bill
campaign, 188
Covington & Burling, 27-28, 31-33, 35-38, 40-41
pro bono work, 40
D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference, 241
Muskie, Ed
presidential campaign, 248
energy regulations and oil companies, 110
Ford Foundation grant, 109
Ginsburg, Feldman and Bress, 109
Nixon, Richard
hired for impeachment trial, 89
Lawyers Committee, 27-28, 33
Morgan Lewis, 149, 153
North Carolina Bar, 31
Olwine Chase, 148
post office committee investigation, 158, 164
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), 123, 251-52, 254, 260, 289
pro bono work, 33-34, 40, 299, 301
Senate Select Watergate Committee, 37-43, 46-55, 63-68, 76-81, 84-94, 111, 179, 287
Assistant Chief Counsel, 38
most successful congressional investigation U.S. history, 318
Southern Railroad cases, 35
Swidler & Berlin, 149, 204
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 224
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 34-35
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 224
vetting, 197-98, 209-10, 302, 304-09, 311-14, 316, 318
Clinton’s nominees, 252
criteria for vetting, 308
Hamilton, Kathryn (daughter), 28, 30
Hamilton, Kristina (wife), 27-28, 162
Hamilton,William (son), 27
Harlow, Bill, 250, 254
Harlow, Bryce, 250
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Hatfield, Mark, 93
Heflin, Harold, 105, 112, 115-16, 122
Helms, Jesse, 93, 105, 115-16
Henry, Bill, 99
Heymann, Phil, 98
Heywood, Thomas (great great great grandfather)
signer of the Declaration of Independence, 3
Hodsoll, Frank, 138, 141
Hogan, Thomas (Tom), 253
Home Loan Bank Board, 124
Hoover Institution, 139-40
Horsky, Charles (Charley), 26, 30, 38
House Select Committee on Assassinations, 173
Hubbell, Webb, 183
Hughes, Howard, 65, 77
Hunt, Howard, 37, 52, 55
Hyman, Lester, 249
Ickes, Harold, 226
informing function of Congress, 44, 62, 269
Inouye, Daniel (Dan), 76, 82, 104, 121, 124, 133
Inside Report by Bob Novak and Rowland Evans, 246
Issa, Darrell, 261
Jacobson, Joy, 124
James, Fleming, 17
Jensen, Lowell, 140
Johnson, Jim, 277, 281-82
Johnson, Lyndon, 22
Jordan, Jim, 266
Kassebaum, Nancy Landon, 105, 115
Kavanaugh, Brett, 183-86, 188-89, 195-98, 200, 273, 290
confirmation, 289
Keating, Charles (Charlie), 78, 111, 114-17, 119-20, 123, 125-26
American Continental Corporation, 116
Lincoln Savings and Loan, 117, 125
Keating Five, 78, 111, 114-16, 123, 126, 129, 133-35, 271
money in politics, 288
Kelly, Doug, 101
Kennedy, Anthony, 194, 210-11
Kennedy, Bobby, 144
Kennedy, Ted, 144, 247
Kerry, John, 277, 281-82
Kessler, Fritz, 17
Kiernan, Leslie, 278
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Klain, Ron, 277
Kneedler, Ed, 205
Korelly, John, 98
Korff, Baruch, 65
Kuhnle, Edith Hamilton (sister), 9
Kreeger award, 10
Kuhnle, John (brother-inlaw), 9
Kummer, Raechel, 289
Lackritz, Mark, 43
Lacovara, Phil, 179, 181, 189, 192
Lader, Phil, 6, 253
Lader, Linda, 253
Lafayette (Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette), 2
legislative function of Congress, 48, 198
Lenzner, Terry, 38, 43, 77, 81, 91
Levy, Mike, 287, 289, 291, 297, 319
Libby, Scooter, 282, 285-86
Liddy, Gordon, 41, 77, 287
Lieberman, Joe, 256, 307, 310
Lincoln Savings and Loan, 129-30, 132, 137-38
direct investment rule, 130
Lipps, Andy, 207
Liss, Jeff, 312
Litton Industry, 146
Livengood, Howard, 39
Lott, Trent, 127, 146
Lynch, Jr., Thomas (great great great uncle)
signer of the Declaration of Independence, 2
Macumber (case), 196
Madigan, Michael (Mike), 36, 100, 227, 236
Magruder, Jeb, 41-44, 48, 75
immunity, 50, 65
Malek, Fred, 67-69
Responsiveness Program, 36
Malloy, Mike, 15
Manchester Union Leader (newspaper), 226
Mansfield, Mike, 37, 81, 85
Massey, Ida, 10
Mattingly, Matt, 98
McCain, John, 117-19, 122, 124-26, 128-29, 285
McCarthy, Joe, 95, 144, 269
McCloud, Jim, 290
McCord, James, 39-41
McGovern, George, 225
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Micronesia, 153-54, 160-61
Bureau of Investigation, 155
election fraud investigation, 153
Haruo Remeliik, 159
Roman Tmetuchl, 158-60
Miers, Harriet, 64
Mika, John, 265
Miller, Judith, 253
Miller, Zell, 98
Millett, Patricia (Patty), 208
Mills, Cheryl, 265-66
Minchew, Daniel, 89, 92-93, 98-99
Mitchell, George, 241, 243-45
Mitchell, John, 41, 48, 52
Moe, Dick
President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 276
Moore, J. William, 18
Moore, James William (Jim), 17, 39
Morgan, Bob, 93
Moses, Crystal, 289
Mullen, Michael, 259-62, 264- 68, 270, 288
Murkowski, Lisa, 290
Muse, Bob, 39
Muse, Ed, 146
National Archives, 68, 184, 201, 212
National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish, 201
New York Times, 142, 151, 222, 271, 288
Newsweek (magazine), 176
Nimetz, Matt, 90
Nirakelsong, Arthur, 157
Nixon, Richard, 41, 52, 55, 63, 74, 173
CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President), 51
executive privilege, 61
re-election, 36
resignation, 81
subpoena, 47, 61
unanimous decision to subpoena, 289
North, Oliver, 43
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 18
Novak, Bob, 177, 246-47, 257-58
Capital Gang (television show), 247
Crossfire (television show), 247
Prince of Darkness, 247, 257
Nussbaum, Bernie, 183, 277
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O’Connor, Sandra Day, 195, 198
Obama administration, 277
Obama, Barack, 209, 262, 277-78
Oberdorfer, Louis (Lou), 26
Odle, Robert, 51
Olson, Ted, 206
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 171
Oswald, Marina (Marina Oswald Porter), 171-76
Owen, Bob, 30
Palin, Sarah, 285
Palau, 170-77
Park, Tong Sun, 216
grant of immunity, 217
Parker, Barrington D., 218, 220, 222
Passman, Otto, 152, 216-17, 219-23
“Otto the Terrible”, 214
Chairman of the House Foreign Aid Appropriation sub-committee, 214
competency proceedings, 219, 221
Davis v. Passman, 215
Food for Peace Program, 216
Touro Infirmary, 217, 219-20
Penn, John, 187, 188
Peters, Mike, 199
Pettite, Andy, 242
Pickering, Tom, 260-62, 265
Plame, Valerie, 248, 250, 254-55, 257-58
Pollard, Jonathan, 102
Potts, Steve, 230
Pryor, David, 105, 115-16
Radowski, Kirk, 242-43, 245
Raiser, Molly, 171
Raiser, Vic, 171
Reagan campaign, 137, 141, 144-45, 149, 151
Reagan, Ronald, 107, 136-37, 139-41, 144, 148, 151
Rebozo, Bebe, 65, 77
Rehnquist, William, 194
Reich, Charlie, 17
Reno, Janet, 231, 235, 236
responsiveness program, 67, 71, 73, 80
National Archives, 68
Riegle, Don, 117-18, 122, 126, 128, 134
Robertson, James (Jim), 31
Robinson, Aubrey, 65
Robinson, Cokie, 199
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Romney, Mitt, 290
Rose Law Firm, 178, 183
Rotunda, Ron, 39
Rove, Karl, 252, 254, 258
Ruby, Jack, 172
Rudman, Warren, 105, 111-13, 115-16, 121, 125-31
Ruff, Chuck, 122, 230-31
Safire, William, 222
San Francisco Chronicle, 240
San Francisco Home Loan Bank Board, 119
Sanders, Don, 36, 54-55, 60, 82
Sanford, Terry, 105, 115
Satterfield, John, 31
Saturday Night Massacre, 66, 71
Scalia, Antonin, 198, 209-10
Schafer, Jack, 32-33
Schmitt, Harrison, 92-93, 97
Secret Service
maintained Watergate tapes, 61
Sedlmayr, Laurie, 124
Segal, Bernie, 26
Segretti, Donald, 70
Select Committee on Assassinations, 172
Selig, Bud, 241
Seven Arts, 30
Seven Arts (case), 30
Seymour, Whitney North, 26, 31
Shaffer, Charlie, 42, 45, 48-49, 74
Sheeler, Charlie, 241, 244-45
Sheffield, William, 162-64, 167
Shultz, Connie, 280
Silberman, Laurence (Larry), 69
Silbert, Earl, 37
Sirica, John, 39-40, 44, 62, 65, 78
social gospel, 8
Specter, Arlen, 104
Stans, Maurice, 48
Starr, Ken, 183-90, 194-96, 198, 200-01, 210, 237, 255, 273
Stennis, John, 66, 132
Stevens, John Christopher, 260, 263
Stevenson III, Adlai, 92, 94-96
Stewart, Potter, 213
Stockman, David, 136-38, 141, 146, 148
Stokes, Louis, 172, 175
Summers, Clyde, 17
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Supreme Court of Georgia, 97
Supreme Court of Palau, 174
Supreme Court of the United States, 30, 80, 88, 163, 179, 183, 194, 196, 201, 205, 209, 210-11, 213, 219, 228, 256, 273, 277, 283, 286
attorney-client privilege, 214, 216-17, 300
longevity issues of terms of Justices, 314, 315
Swidler & Berlin v. United States, 187
United States v. Nixon, 62, 72, 79, 89, 180
Upjohn v. United States, 194
White (Byron) vacancy, 197-98
Suter, Bill, 209
Swidler & Berlin v. United States, 187
Talmadge, Betty, 89, 91-92
Talmadge, Gene, 87
Talmadge, Herman, 67, 72, 74, 76, 79, 82, 85, 88-99, 101, 114, 116, 152, 271
Tamraz, Roger, 227-28, 230-36
Interpol arrest warrant for embezzlement in Lebanon, 231
Tatel, David, 189, 192-93
Taylor, Bill, 99, 224, 278
Taylor, William, 122
The Family
Netflix documentary, 107
This Week (television news show), 199
Thomas, Clarence, 198
Thompson, Fred, 36, 46, 55, 60, 82, 226, 236, 289
Thompson, Melvin, 87-88
Tisdale, Aileen, 90
Tnetuchl, Roman, 159
Travelgate, 181, 190-91
Trump, Donald, 123, 186, 259, 290
Tutwiler, Margaret, 142-43
Tweed, Harrison, 26
Ulasewicz, Tony, 53
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 224
United States Coutrt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 222, 224-26
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 314
United States Department of Justice, 29, 91, 97-98, 113, 138, 149-50, 197, 216, 222, 226, 228, 234, 248
exemption 7C, 210-11
Public Integrity Section, 216
Upjohn Co. v. United States, 194
VanPaasschen, Gwendolyn, 124
Verrilli, Don, 277
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Voting Rights Act, 225
Wade, Rogers, 92, 94
Wald, Pat, 189
Walker, Edwin, 173
Wall Street Journal, 182, 190
Warren Commission, 172, 173
Warren, Christopher, 276, 277
Washington Lawyer, by Charles Horsky, 38
Washington Post, 58, 66, 218, 245, 288
Washington Times, 238
Washington, George, 1-3
Watergate
dirty tricks, 69
discovery of White House tapes, 56
White House tapes, 47, 54, 59, 65, 77, 289-90
Webster, Bill, 206
Weicker, Lowell, 47, 48
Weinberger, Caspar (Cap), 102, 104, 123
Weingarten, Reed, 98
Wellford, Harrison, 15
Wellington, Harry, 17
Wells, Ted, 258
Werthim, Ron, 90
When Congress Investigates by Allan Barth, 66
White, Byron, 179-80, 277
Whitewater, 185, 190, 204, 210
Will, George, 146, 147
Williams, Harris, 114
Williams, Stephen, 189, 191, 195
Wilson, Joe, 75-77, 247-48, 250, 254, 257
Wilson, Woodrow, 44, 269
Winegard, Tim, 144
Winfrey, Oprah, 175
Wisdom, John Minor, 32
Witt, James Lee
Department of Interiors’ Bureau of Fish and Wildlife.investigating eagle feathers, 239
FEMA, 237
Woodward, Bob, 58, 63
Wool-Hat Boys, 87
Wright, James, 120
Zener, Bob, 216
Zumwalt, Bud, 252
Medal of Freedom, 253
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