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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There seems to be more at issue here than unlearned civics lessons about what actually constitutes an impeachment proceeding. Rather, these mixed polling results seem to indicate a mixed national mood, a combination of outrage and fear--intensified, to be sure, by confusion, but profoundly ambivalent in its own right...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: Our Drama of Kingship | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

HOWEVER, except for its infrequent use in the United States, impeachment is a process that by its nature should promise stability and the continuation of the status quo, not chaos and disaster. It is a political ritual that has been present in the constitutions of organized societies since their beginnings...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: Our Drama of Kingship | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

Impeachment was meant to be an integral part of our governmental system, a constitutional method for redressing wrongs committed by the country's high officials. We suffer no dearth of precedents (they fill over 2000 pages in House and Senate record books), and no lack of officials capable of presiding...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: Our Drama of Kingship | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

THE SECOND HALF of the show is devoted to Bip, Marceau's alter ego and trademark for the past 25 years. In a worn out high silk hat topped by a flower, his eyes and arched eyebrows darkened, his mouth a red gash, Bip is "the silent witness of the...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Silent Witness to the Lives of Men | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

Archibald Cox is known not as the man who counseled the quick bust (a technique he learned, in the best academic tradition, by studying the disaster at Columbia), but for more recent, more noble efforts.

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: What Good Did It Do? | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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