Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours, pencil in teeth, thumbing through sheaves of coffee-stained bills spread over a kitchen table, one concludes that he could be a victim of some inept tax advisory preparers." The St. Louis Globe Democrat thought that "it is entirely reasonable to assume that the IRS would have dealt more generously with someone less vulnerable than the President." The Wall Street Journal, while siding with Nixon's taxmen in believing that the deductions on the papers could be defended, observed that "the nation has a right to expect better of Presidents" than Nixon's efforts to cut every conceivable...
...Jersey Democrat Rodino's exasperation over White House dawdling on the request for evidence was shared by the committee's ranking Republican, Edward Hutchinson of Michigan. He said that he could not understand why Nixon and his chief Watergate lawyer, James St. Clair, were resisting. "We're not after irrelevant matters," Hutchinson declared. "We're not after state secrets." Rodino explained that the committee wanted only "specific evidence of specific acts of specific relevance to our inquiry." The committee had waited "40 days and 40 nights" and still did not have a satisfactory White House reply...
...shift in sentiment was illustrated last week by the pointed remarks of Mike Mansfield, the ever-cautious Senate Democratic majority leader. Mansfield observed: "I talk to House members, and they think the votes are there" for impeachment. This, he suggested, is partly because of "the dilatory tactics" of Nixon and his men in dealing with the Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino. Moreover, said Mansfield, he did not want the President to resign, as suggested by Republican Conservative Senator James Buckley, and indicated little enthusiasm for any legislation granting him immunity from prosecution if he were...
Even as the special prosecutor was forced to take legal steps to compel the turnover of White House evidence, the House Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, received a forward assist in its investigation of presidential conduct. Moving swiftly, federal courts on two levels ordered that a grand jury report dealing specifically with Nixon's Watergate role must be given this week to Rodino for the impeachment inquiry...
...hearings, Subcommittee Chairman Robert W. Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin Democrat, admitted that the country was no closer to a solution of the problem. "Our hearings were held to determine if there was support for any of the available approaches," he said. "It will take some time to get a consensus. There will have to be some changes of heart." There are not likely to be any until this year's election is over and Congress can deal with such political dynamite without fearing punishment at the polls...