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With this in mind, committee members heard witnesses with impatience, since they now consider Rocky's confirmation a foregone conclusion. Joseph Rauh spoke for the Americans for Democratic Action, a national organization of some 65,000 members, almost all Democrats, who lobby for liberal to leftish measures. Rauh insisted that Rocke feller was unfit for office because of his wealth. "A vote for confirmation," said Rauh, "is a vote for a [potential] President who will never spend a day with out a serious conflict of interest and whose White House will exist under a dark cloud of suspicion...
...Massacre. Asked Committee Chairman Peter Rodino: "You say it doesn't make any difference whether we study this until doomsday. Rockefeller is precluded?" Rauh said that that is what he meant. Rodino later remarked...
...have, perhaps unofficially, a secret third client. One legal observer argues that "the only way Nixon can be sure his former aides will not implicate him is to have one lawyer coordinating their testimony, not two lawyers each battling for the interests of his client." Attorney Joseph L. Rauh, a former national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, more bluntly charges Wilson with being "the go-between to keep their stories straight." Says Wilson himself: "I'm not coordinating anything." As for the ethical implications of having two clients, Wilson asserted that the two men's stories were...
Linking the Rehnquist nomination with the theme of the conference. Rauh said that "there's only one way to stop more Rehnquists. We've got to beat Richard Nixon...
Following Rauh, Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) spoke, insisting that students, minority groups and women constitute a majority of the Democratic party and have the potential to control it. She received several standing ovations...