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...Knuckle Rap. House leaders of both parties met to discuss procedures for the impeachment debate and vote, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr. huddled with Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. on the committee's final report, due next week. The leaders agreed to open the proceedings with 55 hours of general debate, with Judiciary Committee members limited to 15 minutes and all other Representatives to five minutes. That discussion will be followed by 21 hours of debate on motions on the articles. The Representatives will be allowed to propose amendments to eliminate...
...last-ditch alternative to impeachment, some Republican Representatives, with concurrence of Gerald Ford, proposed that the House censure the President. In lieu of impeachment, the motion would merely chastise Nixon for "moral insensitivity, negligence and maladministration"-a featherweight rap on the knuckles. The notion was so strongly opposed by the Democratic leadership that it was given little chance of even reaching the floor...
...national interest among these men. They talk about saving themselves, each other, about "modified limited hangout," about p.r. "But they never mention what is best for the country," he says. He gets a chuckle out of the fact that Nixon may give a man a hard verbal rap, later give him a new job or great praise...
...know that will happen. You don t tell him, but you know and I know that with him and Mitchell there isn't going to be any damn question, because they got a bad rap...
Ehrlichman suggests that Magruder be instructed to seek immunity and take the rap for the Watergate break-in without implicating anyone else. Magruder did not take this advice. He confessed to the prosecutors that he had committed perjury and disclosed the roles of Mitchell and Dean in Watergate and is awaiting sentencing...