Word: manne
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Typified by the understated eloquence of South Carolina's gentle James Mann, the remarkable House Judiciary Committee last week completed its unwanted task of bringing Richard Nixon to public account for grave violations of his oath of office and injury to the U.S. Constitution. Through two more days of largely decorous televised debate on impeachment, the committee's fragile bipartisan coalition strongly approved a second article of impeachment and narrowly approved a third. By large margins, the committee then rejected two other charges against the President...
...related criminal conviction of John Ehrlichman, then successfully sponsored a third article of impeachment of his own. It charged Nixon with deliberately disobeying lawful subpoenas from the Judiciary Committee for White House tape recordings and documents. Only two Republicans (McClory and Hogan) supported this article and only two Democrats (Mann and Alabama's Walter Flowers) opposed it. Defeated by identical margins of 26 to 12 were proposed articles based on Nixon's secret orders to bomb Cambodia, and his "attempt to willfully evade" federal income taxes and use public funds for improvement of his private properties...
...closing general debate on the article, Utah Democrat Wayne Owens warned that "the history of liberty in the world is very short, the history of tyranny is very long, and the principal source of oppression has always been the unrestrained power of the state." When South Carolina's Mann observed that the U.S. political system looks out for "the underdog" and protects the "individual from the power of his government," Mississippi Republican Trent Lott had a question...
...under Donohue's name, the impeachment forces went to work on new drafts as soon as the round of general debate was concluded on Thursday night. At this critical stage, Chairman Rodino joined the group of key Democrats assembled in Counsel Zeifman's office. Among them were Flowers and Mann, who now held the virtual proxy votes of moderate Republicans. Their aim was to find precisely the right language that would placate the more liberal Democrats, hold the Southerners as well as the available Republicans, and yet be technically proficient enough to withstand the anticipated assault from the Nixon loyalists...
...there seemed a kind of fastidious smirkiness in Delbert Latta, then by contrast Fish and Mayne, Kastenmeier and Mann exuded a quiet and impressive earnestness and integrity. (Kastenmeier displayed probably the most imposing arched eyebrows since John Barrymore's.) For all their differences, the commit tee members clearly seemed to share the camaraderie of ship mates on an awesome voyage that none had chosen but all must take, to whatever...