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Updated March 2024, posted May 2019
Since the Watergate investigation during the Nixon Administration, congressional oversight committees have received testimony and internal communications from the Office of White House Counsel in both Republican and Democratic administrations, on subjects ranging from document production updates to deliberation over the President’s exercise of constitutional authorities such as the pardon power.
As the examples below show, over 20 White House lawyers from seven presidential administrations, including nine White House Counsels, have testified in depositions and hearings since the Watergate investigation.
