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...Left. By 1969, Nixon was firmly ensconced in the White House with a mandate to clear the streets of the renegades and Communists who sought to bring down our great nation, while bombing in Indochina was rising to record heights as the illegal war widened into Cambodia and Laos...
...congressional seat that he had held for 50 years, and her vigorous campaign convinced Brooklyn's 16th District that it was indeed time for a change. As a House freshman, she brought suit against the Defense Department and the Air Force to stop the bombing in Cambodia but lost in the Supreme Court. A graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Holtzman spent summers working on civil rights cases in Georgia and served a three-year stint as an assistant to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. She is now a member of the House Judiciary Committee...
...George Washington University. A top labor-law specialist, he was named dean of Harvard Law in 1968, president of the university three years later. Democrat Bok helped organize opposition to Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination, was among the academicians who went to Washington to protest the 1970 Cambodia invasion...
...staff work. Southern Democrats, under some political pressure from home to back Nixon, have been relatively qui et so far, but many are leaning toward impeachment because of the staffs factual presentation of evidence. The committee last week spent a day on the illegal secret bombing of Cambodia, mainly to mollify the more liberal Democrats, even though that issue can scarcely gain widespread support as a separate impeachment article...
...begin with, we wouldn't have gone so slowly. It would have been clear that largely unproven charges weren't going to be relevant." He was referring to allegations of misconduct that were arguably constitutional or legal, such as impoundment of funds, the secret bombing of Cambodia and the ITT case. The evidence on those matters took one full day and two afternoons to present...