This series is a collection of papers produced during the Watergate Hearings that were donated by Congressman Don Edwards to the Heafey Law Library. Don Edwards (born January 6, 1915) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives from California. Edwards was elected as a Democrat to the 88th from the 10th Congressional District (later redistricted to the 16th Congressional District) and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963–January 3, 1995). He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Alcee Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and again in 1989 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Walter Nixon, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Edwards was the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights for 23 years. Edwards earned the title "the conscience of Congress" for his steadfast support of civil rights and his advocacy of all the disadvantaged. Columnist Nat Hentoff frequently referred to Edwards as "the Congressman from the Constitution" because he regarded the Bill of Rights as his constituency. In 2002, he received the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award for his "unswerving devotion to the constitution and its values." In 2003, the House of Representatives honored Edwards with one of the first Congressional Distinguished Service Awards, noting the civility of his work and his refusal to pursue "political ambition at the expense of common decency" or to "sacrifice his soul at the alter of political expediency."
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01. Statement of Information: Table of Contents
Don Edwards and United States Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary
Book I: Events prior to the Watergate break-in, December 2, 1971 - June 17, 1972.
Book II: Events following the Watergate break-in, June 17, 1972 - February 9, 1973 (allegations involving Presidential interference with the official Department of Justice investigation).
Book III: Events following the Watergate break-in, June 20, 1972 - March 22, 1973 (allegations concerning payments of "hush" money to Watergate defendants to insure their silence, offers of leniency and executive clemency, and the making or causing to be, of false statements to persons connected with an official investigation of Watergate; chronology of events between February 9 and March 22, 1973).
Biook IV: Events following the Watergate break-in, Marrch 22, 1973 -April 30, 1973 (events relating to the President's investigation of the alleged Watergate break-in and cover-up between March 22 and April 30, 1973).
Book V: Testimony of Richard Kleindienst before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 1972 regarding the commencement, prosecution and settlement of the anti-trust action against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.
Book VI: Political contributions pledged and made by milk producers' cooperatives from 1969 through 1972 for the benefit of the President's re-election campaign and the Administration's decision to increase price supports on dairy products.
Book VII: Domestic surveillance activities directed by the White House.
Book VIII: Alleged efforts by White House officials to acquire information from the Internal Revenue Service and to direct certain IRS activities.
Book IX: Events following the Watergate break-in, April 25, 1973 - present (the history of the Special Prosecutor's activities and the President's continuing investigation).
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02. List of Congressman Don Edwards' Watergate Papers Donated to Heafey Law Library
Don Edwards
Congressman Don Edwards' Watergate Papers donated to the Heafey Law Library at Santa Clara University's School of Law on September 1974.
