Memorandum for John W. Dean III, Counsel to the President, from Roger C. Cramton, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Availability of Executive Privilege Where Congressional Committee Seeks Testimony of Former White House Official on Advice Given President on Official Matters

DEC 2 1 1972 Qur 12/21/72 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE JOHN W. DEAN, III 733 Counsel to the President Re: Availability of Executive Privilege Where Congressional Committee Seeks Testimony of Former White House Official on Advice Given President on Official Matters. This memorandum confirms our oral advice (per Leon Ulman) to Fred Fielding of your staff to the effect that the consti- tutional doctrine of Executive privilege may properly be invoked with respect to, as we understand it, the test...