He explained that “it is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising with each other on official matters” without those conversations being subject to congressional scrutiny. Therefore he blocked all employees of the Department of Defense, including John Adams, from discussing in the hearings any “conversations or communications” that constituted confidential advice to the president or to his advisers. The January 21 meeting was off limits, as were any other conversations in the White House on
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