Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of decision approached: to secure maximum committee support for any articles of impeachment that would be recommended to the House. He knew that there was no hope of enlisting about ten Republicans firmly committed to Nixon's defense, but he hoped that articles could be drawn in a way that would attract the remaining Republicans, all troubled by some of Nixon's Watergate-related actions. Yet he also had the problem of not limiting the charges against the President so narrowly that the more liberal Democrats would insist on toughening the language or adding more articles. Rodino was worried...
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...
Democratic defenders of the articles contended that the supporting facts should ? and would ? be included in the committee's final report and not jammed into the brief impeachment articles. The spirited argument had some light moments. Insisting that inferences can always be drawn from any given fact, Hungate suggested that "if someone brought an elephant through that door and I said 'That's an elephant,' someone would say, 'That's an inference. It could be a mouse with a glandular condition.' " There were sharp personal exchanges as the commit tee grew restive. Latta irrelevantly criticized Counsel Jenner...
Should suburban residents be drawn into the struggles of big cities to achieve racial balance in their schools? Last week the Supreme Court answered that emotional question in the negative. In a far-reaching and bitterly fought decision that came a day after the Watergate-tapes opinion, the court voted 5 to 4 against a plan to desegregate Detroit's primarily black school system by merging it with the mostly white systems of three surrounding counties...
...both begins and ends with the same question is an indication that it is ahead of its time. It was written when the impact of the experiences and events it describes are not fully known or calcuable. Vogelgesang has traced the history, but the conclusions have yet to be drawn...