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Neither state nor federal statutes automatically strip a public official of his office after a criminal conviction. Instead he usually resigns. If he does not, he faces the impeachment process; or,' if he is a legislator, he can be expelled' by his colleagues. But when should they vote, when should a convicted official resign? After the jury pronounces its verdict or after the last appeal is exhausted? The troubles of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Otto Kerner and California's Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke have given the questions new importance...
Kerner stood down from his judicial duties even before he was tried on charges growing out of race-track kickbacks during his 1961-68 term as Illinois Governor. But he refused to resign. Indeed the House Judiciary Committee in the initial stages of its Nixon study was also thinking about an impeachment of Kerner. Last month, only five days before he went behind bars and one day after his last appeal failed, Kerner finally did resign. In the 14 months since his conviction, Kerner had collected nearly $50,000 in federal...
...tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired the McCarthy-Army hearings six years later. After suffering a stroke in 1969, he refused to resign and in February 1972, he became the first Senator ever to be stripped of seniority and key committee assignments by his fellow legislators...
...seriously considered winding up his political career in 1974. He has often said his highest ambition was to become Speaker of the House, and it did not look as if the Republicans were going to control the House any time soon. But then Spiro Agnew was forced to resign as Vice President, and Ford was made an offer he could not refuse. Although former Treasury Secretary John Connally may have been the President's first choice, Ford had the right look to Nixon. He had never wavered in his loyalty to the President; ever since they had both been junior...
Ford appears undecided on whether he will retain Secretaries Claude Brinegar of Transportation, Peter Brennan of Labor, Frederick Dent of Commerce, James Lynn of Housing and Urban Development, and foot-in-mouth Attorney General William Saxbe. If Saxbe is asked to resign, a good stroke might be for Ford to reappoint Richardson to the job thus putting the Justice Department back into the hands of a man who early insisted that Watergate be fully investigated and that those involved be prosecuted. Chances are, though, that if Richardson is brought back into the Cabinet, it will be in a less prestigious...