Word: bipartisanism
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...House Judiciary Committee concluded its remarkably bipartisan, highly effective proceedings, voting two more articles of impeachment. One accused Nixon of abusing his presidential powers; the other charged him with willfully disobeying the committee's lawful subpoenas of tapes and other evidence...
...Korff's National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency Inc. Said Warren: "We face an uphill struggle, but in a political struggle you have a chance to win." At best, however, the White House strategists hope to narrow the margin for impeachment and make it less bipartisan; they have no hope of carrying the House...
Before the Judiciary Committee vote, House leaders believed that no more than 39 Republicans (out of 187) would desert Nixon and come out for impeachment. The bipartisan nature of the Judiciary Committee debate and vote caused that number to grow sharply last week. Estimates ranged from 50 to 80, the figure predicted by California G.O.P. Representative John H. Rousselot. The Washington Post surveyed the House and reported that only 14 Republicans were willing to say that they opposed impeachment of Nixon, while 116 said that they were undecided. Moreover, Representative Joe D. Waggonner Jr. of Louisiana, a fervent Nixon backer...
...Mann, the remarkable House Judiciary Committee last week completed its unwanted task of bringing Richard Nixon to public account for grave violations of his oath of office and injury to the U.S. Constitution. Through two more days of largely decorous televised debate on impeachment, the committee's fragile bipartisan coalition strongly approved a second article of impeachment and narrowly approved a third. By large margins, the committee then rejected two other charges against the President...
Even so, the House has passed the bill 266 to 136, and the Senate is expected to follow through soon. The measure has been endorsed by a bipartisan phalanx of Senators from Gulf and West Coast states. And there probably is enough support for Congress to override any possible veto by President Nixon, who to his credit opposes the proposal...