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...fact, Nixon's new game plan of an all-out fight against impeachment, coupled with White House efforts to depict the House process as a political vendetta rather than a judicial inquiry, is doubtless aimed at the vote of the House on the committee's finding. The President knows that the members of the House are caught on the horns of a cruel dilemma, indeed several dilemmas. They have been sent back to Washington with contradictory messages from the folks at home. Most Americans think that the President is guilty of one charge or another in the Watergate...
...particular weight falls on O'Neill by default of the other two key Democrats in the drama. Many House Republicans believe that New Jersey Congressman Peter W. Rodino, the dapper Judiciary Committee chairman, has already prejudged Nixon's guilt and is determined to impeach him. The Republicans' respect for O'Neill, and their knowledge that Rodino leans heavily on the floor leader for advice, helps offset those suspicions. House Speaker Albert, who tends to shrink from the enormity of impeachment, also looks to O'Neill. Says one senior member of the House...
While the House has been struggling with impeachment, the Senate has adopted an attitude of watchful waiting on the issue. Neither Majority Leader Mike Mansfield nor Minority Leader Hugh Scott has even allowed any time for an impeachment trial in their advance planning for the year. "I don't think the House will impeach," says Scott flatly. In an effort to keep wavering Republicans in line, Scott has warned: "History does not deal gently with regicides." For his part, Mansfield hopes that the House will not impeach "because politically it will help no one, and it will hurt...
...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...
...latest tape debacle is certain to further endanger Nixon's survival in office. One of the most powerful men in the House, which must decide whether the President is to be impeached, issued a qualified?but possibly portentous ?call for his resignation. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, the Democratic head of the committee investigating Nixon's taxes, said the tape erasure had "destroyed the candor program" of the President, and made an impeachment recommendation from the House Judiciary Committee more likely. Mills said that if Nixon asked his advice, he would say, "Resign in the near future...