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...Dike Bridge the next morning, Look declared: "Gee, that is the same car I saw last night." Its registration number was L78-207. At the inquest, Kennedy insisted that he had been on the road more than an hour earlier and had encountered no other car. But LaRosa and the Lyons sisters confirmed that while out for a late-night stroll, they had been offered a ride...
Thus at every stage of Watergate and the "Grand Inquest" that followed, we have a vindication of the Constitution and of the political habits that have grown up under it. And this has brought with it a large measure of popular education in constitutionalism, in the meaning of separation of powers, in the central importance of the Bill of Rights and in the validity and resourcefulness of the democratic process. The purpose of impeachment is not only to remove from office a man who has betrayed the public trust. It is also to explore the nature of that public trust...
...pleaded with students at the Sanders Theater meeting no to disrupt the speeches by representatives of the South Vietnamese and other governments. Cox later headed the inquest which led to CRR trials for a number of students who took part in the chanting and clapping that disrupted the teach...
...additional question, raised by Walter and Miriam Schneir in their book Invitation to an Inquest, is whether Gold was even in New Mexico at the time he was supposed to have contacted Greenglass. The Schneirs have demonstrated that there is good reason to believe that the hotel registration card which the FBI used as documentation was a forgery...
...Benjamin Franklin asked during the Constitutional Convention, a President "rendered himself obnoxious"? To Alexander Hamilton, the most persuasive apostle of a strong Chief Executive, impeachment was the answer-the ultimate device for checking power in a democracy. In Hamilton's words, it was "a method of National Inquest into the conduct of public men," to be conducted by "the inquisitors for the nation" in Congress...