Word: oaths
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Rhodes has made it fairly clear that if he were an ordinary Republican Congressman, he would vote against Articles I and III but support Article II, the charge that Richard Nixon abused his powers as President, broke his oath of office and misused federal agencies. But Rhodes is no ordinary Congressman, and this fact exerts a powerful influence on his decision. Already there has been open bitterness in the House ranks, much of it directed at Maryland Congressman Lawrence Hogan, the first Republican on the Judiciary Committee to announce that he would vote for impeachment. Hogan got a raspberry when...
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...
...become Congressmen and Congresswomen," noted Missouri Democrat William Hungate, "we took the same oath to uphold the Constitution which Richard M. Nixon took. If we are to be faithful to our oaths, we must find him faithless in his." Iowa Democrat Edward Mezvinsky expressed a similar thought, arguing that Nixon should be brought "to account for the gross abuse of office," and that "we must all ask ourselves, if we do not, who will...
ARTICLE I In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that...
Reinecke's lawyer, James E. Cox, acknowledged that his client was "a big dummy" who may have made a "mistake" under oath. Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard J. Davis used a harsher term. Said he: "Reinecke deliberately lied for one reason-to protect the still very powerful John Mitchell, a man who could help him become Governor." Reinecke, who will appeal the verdict, faces a maximum term of five years and a fine...