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When the impeachment proceedings began, Rodino was a little-known Congressman from Newark, a typical big-city liberal, who had learned during his 25 years on the Hill how the House operates -how to get along by going along-but whose leadership had never been tested...
...Italian immigrant worker, Rodino was raised in the fiercely ethnic Little Italy section of Newark, in a neighborhood so rough that he recalls shootings in the streets. Rodino wrote an unpublished novel about his upbringing entitled Drift Street. At one time, Rodino had hopes of becoming a poet-he still loves to recite Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley and Keats-but he diligently worked his way through the University of Newark Law School...
...ready, Rodino quietly assigned Jerome Zeifman, chief of the Judiciary staff, and two of his assistants to study the process and precedents. Rodino, who in 1973 had dropped his Newark law practice, which had always cut into his time in Washington, began boning up on how the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had viewed impeachment...
They made an odd couple-the voluble politician from the streets of Newark and the taciturn Princeton man who worked on civil rights in the Justice Department under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. But the two men worked closely with growing mutual respect...
...after midnight, sometimes conferring with his staff as late as 3 a.m. When he got a chance, he relaxed by playing paddle ball on the congressional courts or by listening to opera records-Tosca is his favorite -hi the apartment he maintains near the Capitol. Weekends he spent in Newark with his wife Marianna, who had been a high school girl friend. (The Rodinos have two children-Peter, a law student at Seton Hall University, and Margaret, the wife of a Newark judge.) The pace was too fast. In February Rodino landed in Bethesda Naval Medical Center...