Word: impeachers
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...arrived at the hard core," said a staff member of the Senate Watergate Committee as he looked forward to the return of Congress next week after the extended Christmas recess. With the Senate investigation of Watergate nearly completed, Congress is finally facing the crucial question: to impeach or not to impeach Richard Nixon. GEORGE TAMES-Last week, while most of their congressional bosses were vacationing and sampling public opinion, staffers of the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Watergate Committee were compiling evidence that will eventually supply the answer to the question...
Even so, Mallary did not think that the sum of evidence now justified impeachment. Some of his constituents were not so cautious. "Most people here are ready to impeach; we're not waiting for the evidence," declared Edith Hunter, a reporter for the Weathersfield Weekly, as she expressed the seething frustration of Mallary's listeners...
Most important, the House Judiciary Committee will start considering the historic question of whether or not to impeach the President. To Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, everything in 1974 will hinge on how the President finally emerges from the maelstrom of Watergate. What is at stake is his ability -and the ability of the entire Administration-to deal effectively with all the other major issues of the year. Unless Nixon is completely cleared and regains his former clout, or is succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford, the presidency may turn into a form of regency. Several strong men will...
These shortcomings become even more disturbing in light of rumors of corruption in city government. As Cambridge Democrats rally around the impeach-the-president flagpole, reports and hearsay drift up about city jobs bought and sold, spaces in public housing projects dispensed in return for favors, and city councillors paying parking tickets for major backers. City governments are seldom clean, but crushing dominance by one party makes honest government all the harder...
Broder told a Kennedy Institute of Politics seminar the possibilities of Nixon's departure are "quite real," and he added that Congress should pressure for resignation since it has been reluctant to impeach...