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...heard the President's speech on Cambodia. There can be only one way out: Impeach! Impeach! Impeach...
Determined to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford decided not to introduce a formal resolution That would be handled by the House Judiciary Committee, and Ford was afraid its liberal members might block his move. Instead, he urged a special probe into Douglas' conduct. The only approval required for that was from the conservative House Rules Committee. But liberals rapidly upset Ford's plan...
...Harvard a group of students circulated a petition in House dining halls asking Congress to impeach Nixon and withhold approval for military expenditures in Laos and Cambodia. Over 1000 students signed the petition, which will be circulated again today...
...expand the ABM program. The animosity did not rub on the House of Representatives last week, where Nixon's pioneering reform of the nation's welfare policies passed handily with a bipartisan majority, 243-155. But the drive in the House by Southern Democrats and Republicans to impeach Justice William Douglas (see following story) looked like a retaliatory move by Carswell supporters and further embittered the controversy over the court...
With the air of Carry Nation axing a saloon, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford last week launched a crusade to expel Justice William O. Douglas from the Supreme Court. Most observers assume that Ford wants to impeach Douglas as a reprisal for Richard Nixon's two Senate defeats in the Haynsworth and Carswell cases. Legal scholars doubt that Douglas' unconventional views and behavior come remotely close to grounds for impeachment. But Douglas is vulnerable to criticism on many grounds...