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Back in the fall of 1972, impeachment was a word uttered reticently, if at all, in connection with Watergate, and Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil heard it only "occasionally from a Democratic Congressman here and there." Yet MacNeil, a veteran of 24 years on the Hill, soon became convinced that there was a most serious scandal afoot in the White House and that the House would ultimately look to its impeachment processes. Early last summer House Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neill, impressed with John Dean's testimony, alerted Peter Rodino to get ready for impeachment. MacNeil was privy...
...duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed by willfully ignoring the laws and by endeavoring to impede and obstruct their proper execution. In all this, he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors in the conduct of his Office, for which the House of Representatives do impeach...
...Watergate debacle has pointed up yet another flaw in our system of Government: with a four-year presidential term, you just don't have enough time to impeach...
Marshall: How are you going to impeach him if you don't know about it? You're on the prongs of a dilemma, huh? [When St. Clair demurred, Marshall pushed on.] If you know the President is doing something wrong, you can impeach him. But the only way you can find out is this way, so you don't impeach him. You lose me some place along there...
...issues. The far-reaching decisions on racial discrimination and individual rights, beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation ruling of 1954, were applauded by civil libertarians-and just as vigorously denounced by a variety of critics. Segregationists and John Birchers put up billboards demanding IMPEACH WARREN; religious traditionalists protested the court's 1962-63 bans on classroom prayers and urged the court to "put God back in the schools." Law-and-Order Candidate Richard Nixon invariably drew cheers in 1968 when he accused the court of rulings that freed "patently guilty criminals...