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...Robert F. Drinan...
Throughout its six days of decision in July, spread over two weeks, the Rodino committee maintained a spirit of compromise. The reputedly hotheaded liberals, such as Michigan's John Conyers, California's Jerome Waldie and Massachusetts' Father Robert Drinan, spoke pointedly but with unexpected restraint. The Democratic majority allowed the language of the charges against Nixon to be softened or limited in order to appeal to impeachment-leaning Republicans. The articles on Cambodia and Nixon's finances gave defecting Republicans and Southern Democrats a chance to alleviate some of their home-district distress by casting...
Massachusetts Democrat Drinan cited, for example, such a "blanket authorization" as Nixon's orders to the plumbers: "I want these leaks to be stopped. I don't want to be told why it cannot be done ... I want results." To Republican Cohen, any act later "ratified" by the President, if only by failing to reprimand his aides, also made him responsible. Alabama's Flowers stressed that the Constitution's "take care" clause carries an "affirmative duty" to see that laws are enforced and charged that Nixon had "failed to resist even the transgressions of these laws...
Although almost all members of Congress were relieved that Nixon had resigned, several were disappointed at his speech. Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.), said that Nixon had left "all of the important questions unanswered...
...think it's basically unfair that he has once again refused to tell the Congress and the country about his complicity in all of the crimes of Watergate," Drinan said...