could enforce its subpoenas, but he argued that private litigants shouldn t be able to sue the president for matters that occurred before he even came into office, and he lost that narrower claim in the paula jones civil suit. nixon also agreed on cooperating with some investigations. he, too, made a narrower claim that his only presidential conversations should be secret under executive privilege. again, narrow we aer in its presidential view. and that nixon view it was famously rejected by the supreme court unanimously. president nixon has not yet responded to the sledge hammer decision of the supreme court today, which ruled that he must immediately turnover tapes of 64 presidential conversations. the court rejected 8-0 mr. nixon s claim of absolute privilege on those tapes. that was the turning point. nixon was out of the white house 16 days later. his privilege claim was also weaker because he was facing a