Word: railsback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abusing the powers of his office and failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Illinois Republican Robert McClory supported the article, adding his name to the six other Republicans who had also turned against their party's President on the first article (Illinois' Tom Railsback, New York's Hamilton Fish Jr., Maryland's Lawrence Hogan, Virginia's M. Caldwell Butler, Maine's William Cohen and Wisconsin's Harold Froehlich). The vote on the abuse of powers article was thus...
...debate revealed that at least eight hawkish members of Congress had been advised confidentially of the bombing. "How foolish we would be to impeach this President for that particular incident when the whole South Vietnamese involvement was one series of mistakes, one right after the other," declared Republican Railsback...
...moved more quickly toward agreement than the all-Democratic drafters. By the end of Tuesday, said one of the coalition Congressmen, "we had unanimity, a consensus, in two major areas: the abuse of power and the obstruction of justice." It was then clear that at least four Republicans ? Railsback, Cohen, Butler and Fish ? would go for impeachment...
...proceeding is for me," protested Virginia's assertively fast-talking Butler, explaining that he had worked with Nixon in every one of the President's national elections, "and I would not be here today if it were not for our joint effort in 1972." Wistfully, Illinois' troubled and emotional Railsback sought escape. "I wish the President could do something to absolve himself," he said. Even New Jersey's Charles Sandman abandoned his brawling manner to explain: "For the first time in my life I have to judge a Republican, a man who holds the most powerful office in the world...
Running through Wednesday night and most of Thursday, the opening statements publicly confirmed Republican defections from the President that had become apparent in the closed-door strategy sessions on the eve of the debate. Demonstrating a willingness to impeach on at least one mainstream article were Illinois' Robert McClory, Railsback, Fish, Butler and Cohen. In a speech that was at first tantalizingly noncommittal, Froehlich hinted that he might go along with an article on the obstruction of justice in the Watergate coverup...