Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Piece by piece, Nixon's position of power began to crumble. Last October after Nixon fired his special prosecutor, Archibald Cox '34, cries from Congress and from the streets demanded Nixon's impeachment. Impeachment seemed distant, almost improbable, in October, but under the weight of public outrage the House Judiciary Committee took up the future of Richard Nixon...
...real drama, though few realized the full implications of the event, took place in the Supreme Court. In a fateful decision two weeks ago, the Court ordered Nixon to turn over 64 new tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. Those tapes contained information that indicated that Nixon agreed to and took part in the Watergate cover-up; that was the end of the road for Richard Nixon. Gerald Ford took over as president, and the glorious triumphs of the 37th president have become just an ironic footnote in history...
...stonewalling," said McClory, "the prime example is right there." Democrat Seiberling declared that "without the power to investigate, the impeachment power is meaningless." Several other Democrats noted that since the Supreme Court had struck down Nixon's claim of absolute Executive privilege to withhold tapes from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, he had no valid claim to keep them from the Judiciary Committee...
...dominant feeling apparently was that no proof of Nixon's culpability could be offered. Special Prosecutor Jaworski's office is still pursuing its investigation of how Nixon's tax returns were prepared, however, and several opponents of the article said that they would consider an added impeachment charge if new evidence becomes available...
...addition, Norman Sherman, former press secretary to Humphrey, was named last week in a criminal information filed in federal court by the special prosecutor. Sherman is charged with the misdemeanor of accepting illegal funds from the Associated Milk Producers, Inc. to pay for computerized mailing lists. And Humphrey's onetime campaign manager, Jack Chestnut, was accused in a sworn statement by another Humphrey aide of sending $12,000 in campaign bills to the milk coop, which then paid them...