Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's claim in court, as Jaworski had, and had also failed to seek a contempt citation from the full House against him. "We have not elevated this to the level of an impeachable offense by either going to the House floor or going to the courts," contended Democrat Flowers. Insisted Dennis: "The right to impeach ... does not make us the sole arbitrator of the Constitution." The article carried by the narrow and largely partisan margin...
...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, not at civilians. The arguments were carried most effectively by New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman and Alabama's Flowers...
...Democrats lashed out more bitingly. Scoffing at the notion that Nixon might have made "an honest mistake" in not checking to see if his gift of papers had really been in order, Iowa Democrat Edward Mezvinsky, who introduced the article, asked whether the committee could really believe that Nixon "did not know the truth about a gift of over one-half of a million dollars-the largest gift he has ever given in his life...
...people who voted for Nixon in the last election now favor impeachment by 49% to 43%. To assess the committee's impact directly on the most sensitive terrain, TIME correspondents visited the districts of some of the Judiciary Committee's swing-vote Congressmen-six Republicans and a Democrat who voted for impeachment and represent strongly pro-Nixon constituencies. The findings, and how they affect the political futures of the seven Congressmen...
...which includes everything from Ku Klux Klansmen to liberal black college professors, went 66% for Nixon in 1972. As District Representative Andy Dearman said in Flowers' Tuscaloosa office: "No one has expressed outright anger at the vote, but many have expressed displeasure." Of the 353 letters received by Democrat Flowers' office since the vote, almost two-thirds have condemned his position...