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...stay at San Clemente before a search was on in the White House for a new strategy for survival. Until the Judiciary Committee vote, Nixon and his aides had attempted to exploit partisan divisions on the panel. Ziegler went so far as to disparage its proceedings as a "kangaroo court." That strategy was shattered, however, by the defection of six Republicans in support of one article of impeachment, seven in support of another, the introduction of a third by a senior Republican. Now a new course had to be found among the President's rapidly dwindling options. Confessed...
...degree of bipartisanship in the Judiciary Committee vote was larger than had been expected, and it effectively rebutted the increasingly shrill claims from White House officials that the impeachment inquiry was a highly partisan "witch hunt" and that the committee amounted to "a kangaroo court." The range of Republican support for impeachment, embracing the Midwest's Harold Froehlich and Tom Railsback, the South's M. Caldwell Butler, the East's Hamilton Fish and New England's William Cohen, may well influence wavering Republicans when the full House acts on the committee's recommendation. The influential roles played in the committee...
...brief, and Rodino steered his faction-torn committee to last week's climactic and bipartisan vote-the goal he had been striving for so diligently all along. Through it all-the proddings from his own leaders and the cries from the White House that he was conducting a "kangaroo court"-Rodino had kept his cool. As his colleagues acknowledged, by and large Chairman Rodino could say, with justification, "We have deliberated, we have been patient, we have been fair...
...months, almost everybody-and everything-went to the hustings. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government triumphantly produced a glowing testimonial from the country's only Nobel-prizewinning author, Patrick White. The Wildlife Protection Council eagerly proclaimed that a Labor victory was the last hope for the kangaroo...
...former colonial overlord. One of his first acts as Prime Minister was to begin still another search for a new song more befitting "our national aspirations." Although the government offered a prize of $14,850 to the winner, none of the thousands of entries was thought worthy of a kangaroo lullaby, let alone a national anthem. In desperation, the government turned to three golden oldies: Song...