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Good morning.

I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Tuesday

July 24th. In today's news, President Trump is considering taking away top secret security clearances from his critics.

The government says more than 450 parents of migrant children have been deported without them.

And new emails show the Trump administration intentionally

ignoring the economic benefits of national monuments

in an effort to shrink them.

But first, the big idea. Today is the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in US v. Nixon.

Here's the NBC Special Report from that morning.

It is the unanimous decision Doug 8 to 0.

Justice Rehnquist took no pardon

the decision ordering the President of the United States

to turn over the tapes.

Those tapes refer to recordings

that Richard Nixon made in the Oval Office of his conversations

with AIDS and visitors.

The court's order led directly to the release of the so-called smoking gun, which proved that Nixon knew about the break-in at the Democratic

headquarters in the Watergate building and that he subsequently conspired with

his staff to obstruct justice. The recordings were sometimes pretty hard to decipher, but once the tapes emerged, there was no denying that Nixon was involved in the cover-up. The release had immediate consequences.

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