Word: impeachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accelerating drive to impeach President Nixon poses an especially troubling problem for the man who may soon have to succeed him. For months, Gerald Ford has cautiously tried to walk what he called "a fine line." On the one hand, the Vice President has declared that the evidence was insufficient for impeachment; on the other, he has urged Nixon to turn over all subpoenaed tapes and documents. After the Judiciary Committee vote, however, Ford declared that the vote was "partisan," and insisted that "the President was right...
...ordinary times, it would be inconceivable that a Republican congressional leader could seriously be entertaining the idea of voting to impeach a Republican President. In the first place, it could prove disastrous to his own career. More significant, it could have a disproportionate effect on the whole impeachment fight, freeing Republican Congressmen to vote their conscience -or the politics of their districts-and unquestionably increasing the chance that the Senate would convict the President by a two-thirds vote and remove him from office...
...miserable crime" when they sought files from Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. But in both instances, the loyalists insisted, there was no evidence that Nixon had approved the acts. Moreover, since the political audits never were carried out, New Jersey's Charles Sandman declared that to impeach Nixon for that would be to be punish him "for a thought, not a deed...
Opponents of the article, however, countered that the committee had failed to contest Nixon's claim in court, as Jaworski had, and had also failed to seek a contempt citation from the full House against him. "We have not elevated this to the level of an impeachable offense by either going to the House floor or going to the courts," contended Democrat Flowers. Insisted Dennis: "The right to impeach ... does not make us the sole arbitrator of the Constitution." The article carried by the narrow and largely partisan margin...
FLOWERS: This is a bad rap for President Nixon. We might as well resurrect President Johnson and impeach him posthumously for Viet Nam and Laos as impeach President Nixon for Cambodia. We might as well resurrect the memory of John Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs. President Truman in Korea...