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...clearing of the air. We will have a honeymoon period with the new President. Even the press will lay off, and that will be good for America. It will be good for our critical faculties; we must rest them. We need to rest our nay-saying instincts and the belief that we can all put ourselves in the positions of the high and mighty and tell them how to run things...
Donohue rarely spoke during the closed sessions and was known to get confused during votes. On one occasion, after he mistakenly voted in favor of what promised to be a close motion, Rodino had to correct him by firmly announcing: "The member votes nay...
...what is left of poor Fitzgerald is the presence of money, nay, more a proclamation than a presence. The movie, finally, is not unlike an early Newport mansion for a new-monied man. It plasters gold on its surface in true gargoyle style; the pictures too perfectly partake of the New Port pretensions they are supposed to reveal. The movie stands as a tabloid monument to social climbing America--too much of it too new, too raw-nozed, its jaw somehow too square and too set. So completely lacking is it in the distinctions of taste and tradition, so uneducated...
...House Judiciary Committee has been at work assembling evidence and defining the modern meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors; it hopes to finish its work by April or May. If the 38-member committee then votes to recommend impeachment, the House as a whole cannot escape voting yea or nay on the President. A simple majority of yeas would put Nixon on trial by the Senate, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger presiding. At that point, Nixon might well choose to fight no further and resign...
...turned out, Ford had already carried the day. When the voting was done, 92 Senators had endorsed his nomination to the second highest office in the land, and only three-all liberal Democrats-had cried nay. Maine's William Hathaway felt that the confirmation should be held up until the question of President Nixon's impeachment was resolved, and both Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton felt that Ford was incapable of providing what Nelson called "the kind of inspirational leadership this nation will need should he succeed to the presidency...