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...experts share Bickel's opinion. Columbia Law Professor Albert J. Rosenthal argues that a President kept by a trial from performing his duties could be temporarily removed from office as provided by the 25th Amendment. Further, Harvard Law Professor Raoul Berger suggests in his book, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, that the Constitution's double-jeopardy clause might preclude prosecution for the same acts that caused a President to be removed from office...
With time on his hands, Thompson, alias Raoul Duke, turns self-appointed investigator of the American Dream, as its garish trappings unfold before him in Vegas' nightclubs, casinos, and neonlit car-gorged strips. To assault this scene in a fitting manner, Thompson employs a personal brand of "gonzo journalism," opposed to professional journalism and characterized by the need for "intense, demented involvement" with the subject. Although it requires a much greater degree of personal involvement, gonzo journalism is akin to Tom Wolfe's style of reporting -- which evolved in one instance into "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" after Wolfe...
...much the law applies to the President at all. In ordinary matters, of course, it does. He must pay his taxes and catch no more than the legal limit of trout (though Eisenhower used to break that one). "If the President shot the Chief Justice," says Harvard Legal Historian Raoul Berger, "he could be tried in ordinary criminal court...
From a news story on faculty opinion, quoting Professors Samuel Beer, William Schneider, Ernest May, James Q. Wilson, Raoul Berger, Graham T. Allison Jr., and others...
...that Watergate has again made impeachment a viable alternative to suffering through four years of presidential misrule and misconduct, we are lucky that so able a man as Raoul Berger has taken it upon himself to allow impeachment a full and serious scholarly study. His judgments, and the sound reasoning that lies behind them, will be of the utmost value to those charged with the responsibility of deciding whether to impeach the President--if and when that decision becomes necessary...