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...told them that the ultimate judgment was going to be the people's and our performance was going to be so judged," says Rodino. The members went along with Rodino, although not always happily...
...Rodino's work load was horrendous...
Week after week, the committee met in closed session at 9:30 a.m. every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. "All right, Mr. Doar," Rodino would say, "let's begin." The morning session ended at 12:15; the afternoon meeting went from 2 until 5. But those were only the formal sessions. Rodino was at his desk every morning at 8 and often was still there after midnight, sometimes conferring with his staff as late as 3 a.m. When he got a chance, he relaxed by playing paddle ball on the congressional courts or by listening to opera records-Tosca...
...inquiry went on, Rodino found himself confronted by an insoluble dilemma: the need to be fast as well as thorough. In closed sessions, Doar droned on and on, presenting the evidence that eventually filled 36 black loose-leaf binders-7,200 pages in all. By last month the whole inquiry was in danger of falling apart. The country was nodding off. "The committee is drowning in a sea of material," complained one ranking Republican Congressman who was ready to vote for impeachment. The Democratic leaders in the House pressured Rodino to get on with it. "Peter," said one top-ranking...
Doar drove himself until his face was gray to prepare his final brief, and Rodino steered his faction-torn committee to last week's climactic and bipartisan vote-the goal he had been striving for so diligently all along. Through it all-the proddings from his own leaders and the cries from the White House that he was conducting a "kangaroo court"-Rodino had kept his cool. As his colleagues acknowledged, by and large Chairman Rodino could say, with justification, "We have deliberated, we have been patient, we have been fair...