Word: impeachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there had been any doubts about that, they were convincingly erased last week in an historic vote by the House authorizing its Judiciary Committee to "investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America...
...been complaining that these devout Democrats are as prejudiced against Nixon as a lynch mob that has already tossed its rope over a lamppost. Indeed, Massachusetts' Robert F. Drinan, 53, a Jesuit priest, last July became the first Congressman to introduce a resolution calling for Nixon's impeachment. (Father Drinan recently received a message saying: "If you can't impeach him, exorcise him.") California's Jerome R. Waldie, 49, has backed several impeachment resolutions, and Detroit's John Conyers Jr., one of three blacks among the Democrats, has advocated Nixon's impeachment. Brooks...
...decisions to kill or slash popular programs. Neither does it have any major initiatives for new programs, though spending will rise by nearly $30 billion, to a record $304.5 billion. With his power on Capitol Hill diminished by Watergate and with Congress on the verge of considering whether to impeach him, Nixon may well have decided that big initiatives would not get off the ground...
...troubles Benno C. Schmidt Jr., professor at Columbia University School of Law. While the President has been charged with some misconduct in office that appears to be unique, other accusations against him-ordering wiretaps, auditing the tax returns of political opponents-have been true of past Presidents as well. "Impeachment should be limited to serious crimes as defined in the general criminal law and beyond that, to only very serious abuses of public office," says Schmidt. "Impeachment and removal can't be haphazard. They should not impeach one President unless they are willing to take the position that...
...responsible authorities agree with the interpretation of impeachment that was tossed out by Vice President Gerald Ford a few years ago, when, as a Congressman, he was leading the unsuccessful fight to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas: "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." Nor would many put it as baldly as former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst: "You don't need facts. You don't need evidence. All you need is votes." Both views are so broad as to be formless...