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...first time that White House aides were deeply enmeshed in Watergate. Sovern concluded: "In context, the transcript would support a prima facie case for impeachment." One former high Nixon Administration official said bluntly and bitterly that the President's impeachment was now guaranteed, adding: "If I were Pete Rodino [Judiciary Committee chairman], I'd say we don't need anything else. I'd say thank you, Mr. President?and adios...
...Chairman Rodino, however, wanted to avoid the question of contempt to keep the committee from splitting irrevocably on partisan grounds. In a rare night session, he persuaded the members to approve a letter that mildly chastised the President by advising...
...that his delivery of edited transcripts instead of tapes "failed to comply" with the committee's subpoena. Even on that relatively innocuous rejoinder, the committee split 20-18, by party (although two Democrats and one Republican crossed party lines). But Rodino had succeeded in keeping the committee from being diverted from the hearings on Nixon's impeachment that it will open this week...
More Tapes. The Judiciary Committee continued to prepare for the hearings on impeachment, which it would like to begin May 7. Chairman Rodino acknowledged that the committee has asked for-but not yet subpoenaed-some 79 additional tapes and other documents from the White House bearing on the Watergate coverup, the Administration's 1971 decision to increase milk price supports and its antitrust settlement with ITT Corp. that year...
...since an extension is out of the question. "We have no illusions," says one of the investigators. "We almost certainly won't get finished. I'm concerned about what will happen then. But I know Jaworski will continue to run with the ball, and I hope the Rodino committee will...