Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...processes pushing toward the impeachment of the President gained momentum. A startling election upset in Michigan last week handed over Vice President Gerald Ford's long-safe Republican House seat to a Democrat who had campaigned all-out against Nixon -a warning of the increasing political risks entailed for any Congressman who eventually votes to absolve the President without a Senate trial. The bipartisan legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee issued a well-researched report declaring that a President can be impeached for official misconduct that stops short of a clear-cut crime. Then the committee finally began...
...seat seemed safe for the Republicans it was that of the Fifth Congressional District in Michigan, which Gerald Ford had served for 25 years before becoming Vice President. Ford had always been re-elected with more than 61% of the vote; a Democrat had not held the seat since 1912. One month before last week's special election to fill Ford's seat, his hand-picked candidate, Robert VanderLaan, led Democrat Richard VanderVeen by 60% to 28% in the polls. But on election day in Grand Rapids and environs, VanderVeen won by 51% to 44%, with the rest...
...exactly Tweedledum and Tweedledee, their personalities and politics were not big issues. Both are sober, churchgoing, solid citizens- well tailored for an industrious, no-nonsense community in America's heartland. Republican VanderLaan, 43, had won six elections to the state senate, where he is majority leader. Democrat VanderVeen, 52, a lawyer, noted that he "comes from a long line of Democrats who have lost." He had been elected to the suburban East Grand Rapids school board in 1969, but he lost by a landslide the only big race he ever entered - to Congressman Ford...
...Cambridge Democrat said that Sirica is expected soon to turn over the evidence to the House Judiciary Committee. "Rather than see the evidence made public, I think the president will resign," he said...
...race matched Harry M. Fox, 49, Saylor's loyal administrative assistant for all 13 of his terms, against Democrat John P. Murtha Jr., 41, a boyish-looking car-wash operator in Johnstown, three-term representative in the Pennsylvania house and lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserve. The holder of two Purple Hearts awarded during volunteer service in Viet Nam in 1966-67, Murtha becomes the first Indochina veteran to win election to Congress...