Word: rodino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Knuckle Rap. House leaders of both parties met to discuss procedures for the impeachment debate and vote, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr. huddled with Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. on the committee's final report, due next week. The leaders agreed to open the proceedings with 55 hours of general debate, with Judiciary Committee members limited to 15 minutes and all other Representatives to five minutes. That discussion will be followed by 21 hours of debate on motions on the articles. The Representatives will be allowed to propose amendments to eliminate...
Archie Cox of Harvard, the blueblooded Elliot Richardson and Bill Ruckelshaus, a Hoosier Republican, gave individual honor a fresh luster. Leon Jaworski, the lawyer from Houston, showed principle and courage. And then House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, out of the tough precincts of Newark, looking more like a Hollywood bit-player than a pol, steered his committee through investigation, hearing and vote with good will, restraint and dignity...
Just a block away, Rodino gaveled his Judiciary Committee into session to render their decisive verdict that Richard Nixon should be impeached. There were Southerners and Northerners, liberals and conservatives, black and white, male and female, and they came from California, Massachusetts and most places in between...
...front of the Capitol to survey the scene and was instantly set upon by well-wishers and the curious. He grinned, gave a few handshakes, and ducked into a convertible with his friend Senator John Tunney. As he was riding off and the fasters were starting another song and Rodino had his committee well into the impeachment debate and Justice Burger was still at work in his hilltop citadel, a couple of joggers from the Marine barracks slogged through in shorts, cropped hair and G.I. boots. They stopped, looked at each other, grinned, wiped their brows...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino was handed a note during the impeachment debate last Thursday afternoon. He glanced at it, then arched an eyebrow at CBS Reporter Roger Mudd, who followed a messenger from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...