Word: rodino
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...limits are the resistance in each country to integration between the two. You have more people going from Mexico to the U.S., and you get a Simpson-Rodino ((immigration)) law. You have more drugs going to the U.S., and you get ditches. The limits are the fears and the objective interests in both countries against closer ties with each other. They exist on both sides...
...Nixon is called to account not only for Watergate but also for being a bad poker player: "Any guy who hollers over a $40 pot has no business being President." Nixon is portrayed, above all, as a man of unhinged crudity. O'Neill tells of sitting with Congressman Peter Rodino during the impeachment hearings and listening to a White House tape that enraged the Judiciary Committee chairman. Writes O'Neill: "The President was talking to John Ehrlichman about the Italians. 'They're not like us,' said Nixon. 'They smell different, they look different, they act different. The trouble...
...Iran-contra mess has been more complex and difficult for Americans to follow than the Watergate tragedy, but according to New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino, the newer scandal illustrates a similar "arrogance of power." Rodino knows the subject better than most; he chaired the House Judiciary Committee that voted articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. No similar threat imperils Ronald Reagan, and there are many differences between the two events. Still, as the hearings demonstrated, the Iran-contra misdeeds in some ways are more far-reaching in their implications, placing U.S. foreign policy in the hands of private citizens...
...Neill then became a crucial figure in the Watergate crisis in 1973. When Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma failed to act after Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, the then-majority leader swiftly moved in to continue House investigations. He gave Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey the green light to begin impeachment procedures, becoming one of the crucial figures causing President Richard M. Nixon's resignation...
...stakes as high this time? Probably not, but the unpredictable lurks. Said a White House aide last week: "You can never tell in what direction a hearing like this may go." Panel Member Peter Rodino, the New Jersey Congressman whose steady hand in 1974 dignified the impeachment proceedings against Nixon, hears echoes. "We have a situation again where we have much of the Executive Branch misunderstanding the rule of law," he says. "We just can't let that go unchallenged and unaddressed...