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Acting to maintain the President's momentum, his aides lashed out at Chairman Peter Rodino and his committee. Patrick Buchanan, Nixon's special consultant and once a wily practitioner of the anonymous news leak, assailed the "nameless, faceless character assassins on the House Judiciary Committee." Another adroit news manipulator, White House Communications Director Ken Clawson, charged that leaks from the committee were part of "a purposeful effort to bring down the President with smoke-filled-room operations by a clique of Nixon-hating partisans." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren joined the chorus, deploring "prejudicial and one-sided information...
Draw a Line. St. Clair's agility in mustering procedural arguments against the impeachment process was evident in a letter signed by Nixon to Chairman Rodino, firmly rejecting for the fourth time a Judiciary Committee subpoena of presidential tapes. Contending that the White House had extensively cooperated with the committee, the Nixon letter argued that he must "draw a line" to prevent "unlimited search and seizure" of Executive Branch files by the Legislative Branch. This was necessary to preserve the delicate separation of powers among the three branches decreed by the Constitution. Totally ignored in the letter...
...hour before the hearings start, he collects thoughts from his staff, plows through the volumes of evidence. He trots back down the stairs, enters the hearing room by a side door to avoid the press. He settles in his end seat. Now and then he kiddingly tells Rodino that he is so far away the chairman can't see him. But he does not get lost or bored...
Alarmed at the President's previous success in slowing the impeachment inquiry by withholding evidence, House Speaker Carl Albert summoned Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino and urged him to push on despite that obstacle. Rodino replied that the com mittee was gaining momentum and should meet a target date of July 15 for taking its vote. That would be a month earlier than predicted two weeks ago. The House would then have time to decide the issue by Labor Day. If impeachment is voted - current estimates show a pro-impeachment margin of at least 70 members in the House...
Albert and other Democratic House leaders suggested that Rodino could avert any dilatory tactics by Nixon Lawyer James St. Clair if the committee completed its closed-door staff presentation of evidence and then voted with out calling witnesses. "St. Clair could keep every witness on the stand for three days," one top Democrat warned. But Rodino replied that Republicans on the committee will insist that such witnesses as John Dean, Charles Colson, John Ehrlichman, H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman and John Mitchell be called and tested under crossexamination. Rodino advised that this should be permitted, but that tight controls, including...