Word: rodino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chairman Peter Rodino's committee intends to seek the evidence in two parallel paths. It will first request the material directly from the White House, and will promptly subpoena it if the President's attorneys refuse to comply. Jaworski rightly declares that he is bound by law not to give grand jury evidence to any other body unless a court orders him to do so. Last week he turned over to the committee a helpful list of the 17 tapes and more than 700 documents that his staff has acquired...
...going to give him a chance to be fair," said Republican Samuel Devine last week, referring to Chairman Peter Rodino of the House Judiciary Committee. "If he isn't fair, we'll raise a barrel of hell about...
...knows better than Rodino how difficult it will be to prevent the 38-man committee (21 Democrats, 17 Republicans) from falling prey to the "animosities, partialities, influence and interest" that Alexander Hamilton warned in 1788 could make a mockery of impeachment proceedings. Rodino himself stirred the first controversy on the committee last October by ramming through a party-line vote giving him the sole power to issue subpoenas. Accused of partisanship, Rodino backed off and agreed to share subpoena powers with Michigan's Edward Hutchinson, the committee's ranking Republican...
...women on Rodino's committee are all lawyers, a fact that has helped them to think of themselves, in Hutchinson's words, as "the judicious committee." But that is about all they have in common. Deep political and sectional differences divide the members. In general, the committee...
...votes cast in the House last December against Ford's nomination, nine came from the committee's liberal Democrats, including Rodino. For months the White House has been complaining that these devout Democrats are as prejudiced against Nixon as a lynch mob that has already tossed its rope over a lamppost. Indeed, Massachusetts' Robert F. Drinan, 53, a Jesuit priest, last July became the first Congressman to introduce a resolution calling for Nixon's impeachment. (Father Drinan recently received a message saying: "If you can't impeach him, exorcise him.") California's Jerome...