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DANIELSON: The offenses charged against the President in this article are uniquely presidential offenses. No one else can commit them. You or I, the most lowly citizen can violate any of the statutes in our criminal code. But only the President can violate the oath of office of the President. Only the President can abuse the powers of the office of the President ... They are crimes or offenses against the very structure of the state...
Republican McClory, too, rejected the argument that an abuse of power must also violate a law before it is impeachable. "I think we can agree that the President should not commit crimes," he argued. But the impeachment process is not akin to "a district courthouse to hold the President accountable for statutory violations of the criminal law." It is meant to set a higher standard "in constitutional terms." Added McClory: "There is a clear violation of the President's responsibility when he permits multiple acts of wrongdoing by large numbers of those who surround...
...finest passages Orwell describes his flash encounter with a young, tough-faced Italian militiaman in the international troops' barracks. The gap of language, of nationality, of blood and class background that separates them vanishes when Orwell reads in his face that he would do anything--even commit murder--for a friend. "With his shabby uniform and fierce pathetic face," Orwell writes, "he typifies for me the special atmosphere of that time. He is bound up with all my memories of that period of the war--the red flags in Barcelona, the gaunt trains full of shabby soldiers creeping...
...there seemed a kind of fastidious smirkiness in Delbert Latta, then by contrast Fish and Mayne, Kastenmeier and Mann exuded a quiet and impressive earnestness and integrity. (Kastenmeier displayed probably the most imposing arched eyebrows since John Barrymore's.) For all their differences, the commit tee members clearly seemed to share the camaraderie of ship mates on an awesome voyage that none had chosen but all must take, to whatever...
...always be drawn from any given fact, Hungate suggested that "if someone brought an elephant through that door and I said 'That's an elephant,' someone would say, 'That's an inference. It could be a mouse with a glandular condition.' " There were sharp personal exchanges as the commit tee grew restive. Latta irrelevantly criticized Counsel Jenner for having publicly supported the repeal of antiprostitution legis lation, and Latta in turn was scolded by Ohio Democrat John Seiberling for his improper remarks...