Word: misconduct
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...President during committee proceedings; 2) he had similarly postponed any decision on the procedures the committee would follow as evidence on the President's conduct was considered; 3) he had not yet permitted a narrowing of the committee's inquiry, which included 56 areas of possible Nixon misconduct. Republicans were chafing under this Rodino rule...
Daniel Ellsberg '52 said last night at a Law School Forum that there is "no adequate set of alternatives to protect the public from immoral misconduct of high officials...
Impeachment. That is how it has been done in "primitive" societies for thousands of years, and now-more-than-ever, it appears likely that we will be doing it here in the United States. But despite the mounting evidence of wrongdoing and misconduct by Richard Nixon, despite the persistent Nixon evasiveness that keeps the national confidence in tortuous limbo, a majority of the country continues to view the prospect of impeachment with uneasiness and suspicion. On the one hand, the nation seems to want a definite resolution of the charges against Nixon--a "strong majority" in a recent Harris Poll...
...against Nixon -a warning of the increasing political risks entailed for any Congressman who eventually votes to absolve the President without a Senate trial. The bipartisan legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee issued a well-researched report declaring that a President can be impeached for official misconduct that stops short of a clear-cut crime. Then the committee finally began its cautious pursuit of the White House tapes, documents and other evidence that could make impeachment all but inevitable (see box following page...
Clearly, a lot more misconduct than this can be adduced against Nixon, even with the wider latitude now given to Presidents. But it is only fair to note that dubious behavior by other recent Presidents did not lead to their impeachment. The New York City Bar argues that Congress should impeach Nixon "only if it would be prepared to take the same action against any President who engaged in comparable conduct in similar circumstances." The issue is not how good a President Nixon has been, or how popular he is, or whether he has had foreign policy successes or economic...