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...White House tape recordings and documents. Only two Republicans (McClory and Hogan) supported this article and only two Democrats (Mann and Alabama's Walter Flowers) opposed it. Defeated by identical margins of 26 to 12 were proposed articles based on Nixon's secret orders to bomb Cambodia, and his "attempt to willfully evade" federal income taxes and use public funds for improvement of his private properties at Key Biscayne and San Clemente...
...Michigan's John Conyers, California's Jerome Waldie and Massachusetts' Father Robert Drinan, spoke pointedly but with unexpected restraint. The Democratic majority allowed the language of the charges against Nixon to be softened or limited in order to appeal to impeachment-leaning Republicans. The articles on Cambodia and Nixon's finances gave defecting Republicans and Southern Democrats a chance to alleviate some of their home-district distress by casting a vote of two for the President...
Although doomed to failure, the articles on the bombing of Cambodia and the President's personal finances were debated sharply and at length. On the Cambodia article, the basic facts were not challenged. The U.S. made more than 3,600 B-52 sorties and dropped 100,000 tons of bombs on that nation at a time when Nixon was publicly proclaiming that its neutrality was being respected. The Administration later contended that the secrecy was necessary to maintain Cambodian Prince Sihanouk's tacit approval of the action, which was aimed at Communist troops in border mountains...
FLOWERS: This is a bad rap for President Nixon. We might as well resurrect President Johnson and impeach him posthumously for Viet Nam and Laos as impeach President Nixon for Cambodia. We might as well resurrect the memory of John Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs. President Truman in Korea...
Some members used then? opening statements to make impassioned pleas for articles of impeachment that seemed un likely to win support from a majority of their colleagues. Father Robert Drinan, a Massachusetts Democrat, argued that it was wrong not to cite Nixon for the secret bombing of Cambodia just because it would not "fly" or "play in Peoria." Asked Dri nan: "How can we impeach the President for concealing a burglary but not for concealing a massive bombing?" Surprisingly, New York Republican Henry Smith, considered wholly against impeachment, indicated that the Cambodia bombing was the one Nixon offense that...