Word: bipartisanism
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...appearance of fairness," Chairman Peter Rodino said of his job, and it often seemed to be an impossible task during the long and wearisome months as he led his unwieldy 38-member Judiciary Committee down the path toward impeachment articles. But last week, as the committee inched toward its bipartisan vote of 27-11 against the President, the silver-haired chairman with the husky voice was praised for his fairness by House G.O.P. Leader John Rhodes as well as by House Democratic Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. Said O'Neill of Rodino: "It's magnificent...
...body to conduct the inquiry. Rodino flatly refused to go along, and Albert gave way. (Later, the Speaker was to bless that decision: if a special committee had been set up, the Republicans could have stacked their membership with die-hard Nixon supporters, thus eliminating any chance of a bipartisan vote.) Rodino did not relish the job of conducting the impeachment inquiry. He has had a friendly relationship with Nixon over the years and, he says, "I'd rather find the good in people than...
...Democrats if the nation perceived it to be a partisan vendetta against the President. Even so, Rodino was charged with partisanship himself early on, when he gaveled through decisions on party-line votes to give himself sole subpoena powers. Later, Rodino gave up that right and got strong bipartisan support for the eight subpoenas for presidential tapes, all of which Nixon refused to honor...
Doar drove himself until his face was gray to prepare his final brief, and Rodino steered his faction-torn committee to last week's climactic and bipartisan vote-the goal he had been striving for so diligently all along. Through it all-the proddings from his own leaders and the cries from the White House that he was conducting a "kangaroo court"-Rodino had kept his cool. As his colleagues acknowledged, by and large Chairman Rodino could say, with justification, "We have deliberated, we have been patient, we have been fair...
...Morse's defense, it can only be said that his invective was impartial and bipartisan. He accused Harry Truman of putting on "one of the cheapest exhibitions of ham acting I have ever seen." He said that Lyndon Johnson was "drunk with power." The corpulent G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart was a "tub of rancid ignorance...