Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (2/2)
Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (2/2)
[01.25.00] I yield to Mr. Wiggins from California. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from California. Mr. WIGGINS. Thank the gentleman for or yielding. Let's not confuse apples and oranges. We do not have any responsibility to be specific at all here -with respect to the recommendation we Make to the House. Indedd, the House is able to recognize any member at any time to impeach Richard Nixon without any degree of specificity. We are talking rather about what happens at the Senate. This is a job which will be ours to carry to the Senate. Now, ladies and gentlemen, each in turn yesterday and the day before, we paid tribute to the Constitution. Now is the time to put tip or shut up because we are talking about the Constitution. We are talking about the, fifth amendment and the rights of a respondent not on the floor of the House of representatives but at the bar of the Senate. And specificity is required over there because the Constitution demands it. Wouldn't it be a damning indictment, Mr. Chairman, of this committee if, after all this time and all this money, we 'were unable to state specificity what this case is all about? I think it would. Now, all we are asking, Mr. Chairman, is that we get about it and do it. We shouldn't argue over that point. We should be precise and I suggest we do so. [01.26.33--cut to DUKE in studio] DUKE says that the next speaker will be Democrat John CONYERS to argue that the resolutions are specific enough [01.26.48--PBS network ID] [Promo for Masterpiece Theatre Sherlock Holmes feature] [promo for ATP tennis--a doubles match] [an anti-pollution/environmental message] [01.30.00--title screen "Impeachment Debate"] [Duke in studio, introduces Rep. CONYERS.] [01.30.17]