Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree of bipartisanship in the Judiciary Committee vote was larger than had been expected, and it effectively rebutted the increasingly shrill claims from White House officials that the impeachment inquiry was a highly partisan "witch hunt" and that the committee amounted to "a kangaroo court." The range of Republican support for impeachment, embracing the Midwest's Harold Froehlich and Tom Railsback, the South's M. Caldwell Butler, the East's Hamilton Fish and New England's William Cohen, may well influence wavering Republicans when the full House acts on the committee's recommendation. The influential roles played in the committee...
...long hours consumed in the dispute were turned into a prime-time display of partisan maneuvering. The Nixon sup porters sought to delay a final vote, hoping to discredit and dis courage the majority, perhaps even win back one or two of their strayed Republicans. Since the loyalists were demanding facts, many Democrats used their turn at the microphones to spin out the litany, as they saw it, of Nixon's misdeeds. Most able of all at this was California's Waldie, whose sporadic running narrative was dismissed by Republican Wiggins as "Waldie's fable...
...committee's final public deliberation sometimes drifted into partisan bickering and time-consuming parliamentary gamesmanship, the result vindicated the patience and pace of the committee's determined chairman Peter Rodino. Through some seven months of laborious study, he kept the committee's overworked staff and its philosophically and temperamentally diverse members driving toward a resolution of its agonizing dilemma. When his committee faced its final act of judgment, the country was treated to a surprise: a group of nationally obscure and generally underrated Congressmen and Congresswomen rose to the occasion. Often with eloquence and poise, they faced the television cameras...
From the start, Rodino recognized the danger that the inquiry would blow up in the hands of the Democrats if the nation perceived it to be a partisan vendetta against the President. Even so, Rodino was charged with partisanship himself early on, when he gaveled through decisions on party-line votes to give himself sole subpoena powers. Later, Rodino gave up that right and got strong bipartisan support for the eight subpoenas for presidential tapes, all of which Nixon refused to honor...
...many intellectuals of the Left really listened to the editors of the Partisan Review when in 1968, sensing the dispair of the intellectual community, they reprinted a 1912 essay by Leon Trotsky, "Concerning the Intelligentsia," that called upon intellectuals to use the time of decreased political efficacy as a mere prelude to revolution, rather than succumbing to depression? The final verdict is not in because the repressive Republican interregnum has not yet ended. But Vogelgesang might have either scored those who have merely returned to their former quiescence or explained how, for instance, Mailer is preparing for revolution...