Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Southern Democrat, Jack Brooks of Texas, also played a shrewd backstage role as the committee struggled for consensus. A persistent Nixon critic, Brooks prepared and distributed to all members of the committee a sweeping series of articles of impeachment that were poorly drawn
...this seven-member coalition, the thinking of Southern Democrat and Northern Republican had much in common. "I had a yearning, an innate desire to find the President innocent," recalled Walter Flowers. "I put the blinders on like the old mule used to wear going down the road with the wagon behind him. I couldn't see anything ahead except the road." He was partic ularly troubled by the March 21, 1973 tape, not merely the celebrated "For Christ's sake, get it" quote, but rather, as Flowers put it, "the matter-of-fact way in which the payment of hush...
...York Democrat Charles Rangel, the occasion had a positive side. "Some say this is a sad day in America's history," he said. "I think it could perhaps be one of our brightest days. It could be really a test of the strength of our Constitution, because what I think it means to most Americans is that when this or any other President violates his sacred oath of office, the people are not left helpless...
Although some tried to keep their opening statements neutral, most revealed their position on impeachment right off, and at first there were few surprises. Wisconsin's Democrat Robert Kastenmeier contended that "President Nixon's conduct in office is a case history of the abuse of presidential power." New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman detected "a seamless web of misconduct so serious that it leaves me shaken." Texan Brooks claimed that the committee
...Democrat Thornton claimed that such a failure "would effectively repeal the right of this body to act as a check on the abuses that we see." After breathlessly reeling off a lengthy list of specific improper Nixon acts, Rattsback warned of another result. Speaking of the nation's young people, he claimed: "You are going to see the most frustrated people, the most turned-off people, the most disillusioned people, and it is going to make the period of L.B.J. in 1968,1967 ... look tame...