Word: partisanship
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...committee opposed a resolution asking Xerox to affirm its political non-partisanship...
...prey to the "animosities, partialities, influence and interest" that Alexander Hamilton warned in 1788 could make a mockery of impeachment proceedings. Rodino himself stirred the first controversy on the committee last October by ramming through a party-line vote giving him the sole power to issue subpoenas. Accused of partisanship, Rodino backed off and agreed to share subpoena powers with Michigan's Edward Hutchinson, the committee's ranking Republican...
...special counsel, O'Neill delivered an ultimatum: "You've got to have your man before we go home for Christmas." In December Rodino named John Doar, who had O'Neill's approval because he was a Republican and thus could not be attacked for partisanship...
...hands on the documents, tapes and testimony that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski has been accumulating on all phases of Watergate. Without the files, warns Rodino, his hearings could drag on until next year-a prospect appalling to everyone. But Jaworski, who has to worry about charges of partisanship himself, has been carefully insisting that he does not now have the legal right to turn over his files to Rodino...
...generally agreed that at least six of the 17 Republicans on the committee must endorse the resolution before the Democrats dare risk sending it to the floor. Otherwise, unless one or more charges are clear-cut and proved, the Democrats would leave themselves open to the accusation of partisanship. In that case, not enough Republicans would support impeachment in the final vote -though the Democrats could force it through by simple majority-to convince the American people that the Democrats were not simply voting to oust a Republican nemesis...