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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...
DANIELSON: The offenses charged against the President in this article are uniquely presidential offenses. No one else can commit them. You or I, the most lowly citizen can violate any of the statutes in our criminal code. But only the President can violate the oath of office of the President. Only the President can abuse the powers of the office of the President ... They are crimes or offenses against the very structure of the state...
...sinister forces in this country, by the left-wing press or by the Democrats, and I can assure this gentleman that it matters not to me his party or his position. He is subject to the rule of law and to justice, and in my role under my oath, he will get it, be he President or be he pauper...
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...