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...vote, the article of impeachment was adopted, 27 to 11, by the committee at 7:07 p.m. on a warm Saturday night in Room 2141 of Washington's Rayburn Office Building. Richard Nixon became only the second President to stand so accused by a committee of Congress. The impressive bipartisan nature of the vote increased the probability that the full House of Representatives will also vote to impeach...
There are those who will doubt, and with some justification, that the House of Representatives is an "outside agency." Its members are all politicians, all eminently susceptible to the same failings as Nixon. The barely bipartisan nature of Saturday's vote on the first impeachment resolution is hardly reassuring to anyone trying to believe that objective truth is any criterion in the House's investigation. But take it or leave it, that's all there is. Whatever shortcomings the impeachment process may have, the country is stuck with it, at least this time...
...boss, Greenspan would probably want to keep a low political profile and work for bipartisan support of White House programs. He sees the chairman's job as "strictly that of an adviser, not a policymaker or a propagator of policy." Yet Greenspan would be by far the most knowledgeable of Nixon's top economic aides, none of whom are economists. It is likely that, willingly or not, he will quickly become the Administration's chief economic spokesman...
Joseph S. Mattina, 41. A high degree of visibility distinguishes this county court judge. Four years after his 1965 appointment to the Buffalo city court, Republican Mattina won a ten-year term on the Erie County (N.Y.) court with bipartisan support. Refusing offers to run for statewide office, Mattina prefers to continue attacking root problems of urban society, among them alcoholism and unfair employment practices. A vigorous crusade against drug abuse has carried him from lecture halls to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury clinic, where he spent one vacation as a volunteer worker...
During the lawyers' presentations, committee members were supposed to interrupt only to ask questions that would clarify a point. In the interest of bipartisan harmony, however, Rodino interpreted that standard broadly. As a result, the sessions often bogged down in seemingly interminable-and sometimes irrelevant-questions or debates. Once the members argued for 90 minutes over whether certain material should be labeled "fact" or "evidence." Finally they decided to call it a "statement of information...