Word: impeachment
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...times that passion has knocked him off his hinges, as it did during a gun-control debate when he used his family's tragic deaths to attack former G.O.P. Representative Gerald Solomon. "Play with the Devil, die with the Devil!" Kennedy screamed. During the House vote to impeach Bill Clinton, he nearly came to blows with Georgia's Bob Barr over the Republican's use of a quote from President Kennedy. These outbursts have not hurt him in the eyes of his colleagues. Says Gephardt: "Patrick has the fire of idealism and the passion that Jack and Bobby...
...House decides to impeach the president on Thursday, a political majority which despises Bill Clinton and wants to remove him from office at any cost will have prevailed, at the expense of the integrity of the Constitution. Congress would use the constitutional procedure of impeachment as a substitute for censure. This amounts to a grave abuse of their power: To impeach Clinton this week would be to belittle the awesome mechanism our founders provided for the removal of our most powerful officer...
...Vice President Gerald R. Ford accepts a Man of the Year award from the Young Republicans at the Harvard Club of Boston. Several hundred demonstrators rally in the Yard and later surround the building, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford...
...more successful demonstrations was organized when Harvard's Young Republican Club invited Vice President Gerald Ford to receive their Man of the Year award. On March 10, 1974, more than 400 protestors surrounded the Harvard Club of Boston where Ford was speaking and chanted "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford...
...communist-dominated opposition in the Duma was infuriated by Primakov's dismissal--he enjoyed good relations with the communists--but was certain that it would guarantee the 300 votes needed to impeach Yeltsin on at least one of the five counts leveled against him. The motion with the best chance of success accused Yeltsin of starting a violent civil war in the breakaway Russian province of Chechnya in 1994. But once again Yeltsin thwarted his opponents. Last Saturday one-third of the Duma failed to turn up for the most important vote in their careers. Opposition deputies claimed, without offering...