Word: rodino
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...featured a former U.S. attorney general and a passel of historians, star experts for the Clinton defense who gave their view on whether the President has committed an impeachable offense (he hasn't). This was followed by three Nixon impeachment veterans who gave their "what would the Rodino committee do" take (they wouldn't impeach). Still to come: Witnesses discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting...
...That battle for hearts and minds will be waged on three fronts: First, a group of lawyers will discuss historical precedents and constitutional standards for impeachment, concluding of course that they do not apply here. Next comes the political front, in which three Rodino-committee Democrats will invoke the ghost of Nixon and plead with their counterparts, pol to pol. Then, more lawyers: A third panel takes a long (and presumably critical) look at the facts of Starr's case. And Wednesday? You guessed it -- still more lawyers, followed by closing statements that should last well into the evening...
...inquiry without consulting them; so much so that Minority Leader Dick Gephardt threatened a boycott of the hearings Tuesday. That later turned out to be an empty threat. But it's further evidence that Hyde is failing to live up to the measured standard set by Peter Rodino's Watergate committee, which Hyde has tried to emulate. To bring both sides together now, Starr's performance would have to be nothing short of miraculous...
...Acutely aware of the unpopularity of its task, the committee opened its hearings into the historical basis for impeachment with video snippets of Peter Rodino?s much-praised House Committee, which performed the same task with President Nixon 24 years ago. This is highly ironic, since Rodino himself has recently declared that President Clinton?s actions do not meet the criteria of high crimes and misdemeanors. Republican disgust and frustration was everywhere. South Carolina firebrand Bob Inglis accused his guest Schlesinger ?- perhaps the most respected historian in America ?- of having "a great deal of sophistication but very little common sense...
...detect any of that today." And ROBERT DRINAN of Massachusetts teaches law at Georgetown University. "I don't think there's much impeachable here," he says of the current scandal. "I almost resent these people on this committee now, trying to piggyback on the dignity of the Rodino committee." Among members who turned to the practice of law are Democrats JAMES MANN and EDWARD MEZVINSKY (who headed the Pennsylvania Democratic Party) and Republicans DAVID DENNIS, CALDWELL BUTLER, DELBERT LATTA, THOMAS RAILSBACK and WILEY MAYNE. "I didn't think this would happen again," says Mayne. "I would have thought that twice...