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Another freshman who will also not be accustomed to such a demanding schedule is J. Drew Colfax '89. Colfax has never gone to a formal school and was educated at home by his parents along with two younger brothers and an older brother, who will be a senior here in the fall. "Harvard is the first time I'm going to be in a classroom situation," he says...
...sometimes, jokes played in the name of the Secret Santa game can ruin the fun. This year, South House resident Grant N. Colfax '87 was told by what he termed "a satanic Secret Santa" to take the shuttlebus to Soldier's Field Park and wait for further instructions...
...protect Agnew from prosecution, the Department of Justice would deliver its evidence to the House of Representatives. If the acts in the indictment occurred after Agnew became Vice President, the House would undoubtedly impeach him. But if they took place before he assumed office, the House might follow the Colfax precedent. In 1872 the House decided not to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Schuyler Colfax for acts he bid allegedly committed before being elected, arguing that he could be impeached only for misdeeds committed while in office. In that event, Agnew would be neither indictable nor impeachable and, however...
SCHLESINGER: Both Vice Presidents Colfax and Calhoun, the two cases often cited, involved actions done before they became Vice President. But they don't provide a clear precedent. In the Calhoun case, the House accepted the responsibility to appoint a select committee to investigate charges made against Calhoun some years before. In the Colfax case, it declined to do so. In the Agnew case, not only do the two precedents glance in different directions, but we aren't even clear that the complaints against him do not spill over into his vice presidency...
...committee concluded that impeachment was intended by the Constitution not as a way to punish malefactors, but only to remove a man from an office he has abused while occupying it. Since whatever crime Colfax had committed occurred while he was Speaker, he could not be impeached...