Word: partisanship
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Promised an unlimited budget by Speaker Albert, Rodino began assembling a separate impeachment staff-which was to grow to 105, nearly half of them lawyers-and started looking for a chief counsel. To avoid any charge of partisanship, Rodino wanted an outsider and a Republican. For two months, while the Democratic leadership squirmed at the delay, Rodino consulted deans of law schools, judges, bar-association officials and leading attorneys before choosing John Doar in December...
Political partisanship flared openly in the House Judiciary Committee last week, shaking the fragile facade of impartiality that had enhanced its impeachment inquiry. A surprisingly tough Chairman Peter Rodino pushed the committee into making critical procedural decisions that should ensure a July conclusion of its historic investigation of Richard Nixon's presidency...
...Rodino, the criticism is painful. In selecting Doar, a longtime moderate Republican, as counsel, he had seemed to move shrewdly to avoid partisanship. Certainly, if he had selected a fiery Democratic prosecutorial type, he would have been severely criticized much earlier. The procedure of presenting all the evidence to the committee and expecting the members to draw their own conclusions based on the facts seems proper in something as momentous as impeachment. A rushed series of briefings would have been sharply-and validly-assailed by the White House as unfair...
...Naval officer, Congressman and Vice President. If he left voluntarily, he would also get the normal presidential pension of $60,000 a year, plus up to $96,000 annually to maintain a staff and office. But the overt Democratic strategy has been to act as statesmen, avoid obvious partisanship and leave talk of resignation to the Republicans...
Gail B. Mazur, a member of Neighborhood Nine, said the respondents viewed the Library as an environmental issue and not as a political one. Mazur said that the questionnaires showed a lack of partisanship towards or against the late President John F. Kennedy '40 or the Kennedy family...