...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first stage and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive. It can not be that the only test is whether the information relates to a legitimate subject of deliberation....

...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first stage and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive. It can not be that the only test is whether the information relates to a legitimate subject of deliberation....

...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first state, and the officers whose conduct demanded Investigation...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive" (Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives, v. 3 (1907), p. 181). President Tyler pointed out...

...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first state, and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...branch of the Government is equivalent to the denial of itspossession by him and would render him dependent upon that branch in the performance of a duty purely...

...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first stage, and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...upon that branch in the performance of a duty purely executive."21 President Tyler pointed out that although papers and documents related to the sphere...

...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first state, and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...the denial of its possession by him and would render hi in dependent upon that branch in the performance of a duty purely executive (Hinds' Precedents of...

...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first stage and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...be enabled to elude or defeat it. To require from tue Executive the transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch of the Government is equivalent...

...salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be amsttd at its first stage, and the officers whoae conduct demanded investigation may be enabled to elude...the denial of its possession by him and would render kim dependent upon (•!"'• branck in tiie performance of a dui]/ pxreiy ericuiive.n The President...

...conduct demanded investigation icay be tnabtea H> elude or defeat it. To require from toe Executive tne transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch...equivalent to the denial of its possession by him and toouU render kim dependent upon tltat Drone* in tke performance of a au.j rwrcty executive.™ The...

...deprive him at once of the means of performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. . . . To require from the Executive the transfer of this...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive. (5:2075) President James K. Polk refused an 1846 House request for information pertaining to the foreign...