Word: railsback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Railsback. Aye. Mr. Fish. Aye. Mr. Hogan. Aye. Mr. Butler. Aye. Mr. Cohen. Aye. Mr. Froehlich...
...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's decision to impeach by its articulate Southern Democrats, Alabama's Walter...
Thomas F. Railsback, 42, served two terms in the Illinois legislature before going to Congress in 1967 with Richard Nixon's help. Since then his brand of moderate Republicanism has won such broad appeal among conservatives and union workers alike around Moline that he ran unopposed in 1972. A graduate of Grinnell College and Northwestern law, he has worked for such reforms as equal representation for men and women in state delegations to political conventions. As a House Judiciary Committee member, he urges that support be sought from the courts in obtaining evidence from the White House...
...order," says Railsback, "he's impeached. It's that simple...
...assumed to be incriminating to him, or ignore an order of the highest court. Either move would hasten impeachment. Refusal to comply would leave him in direct defiance of both the Legislative and Judicial branches of Government. "He'd be impeached and impeached fast," said Illinois Republican Tom Railsback, a member of the Judiciary Committee. While Nixon once had promised to comply with any "definitive" Supreme Court decision, without explaining what he meant by the term, his aides will not renew even that vague pledge now. Such refusal to acknowledge that the President "is subject to the rule...