Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Cambodia Bombing Article of Impeachment. John Conyers
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Cambodia Bombing Article of Impeachment. John Conyers
Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 30, 1974. Cambodia Bombing Article of Impeachment. John Conyers (D - Michigan). John Conyers (D Michigan). I thank the gentleman for his very acute perceptions this subject and I would like to point out that I don't think anyone making a decision of whether to support this article or not on this committee could begin to assert that telling a few Members selected throughout the Senate about the bombing would constitute the notice that is required of such a high constitutional level, especially when the President was at the same time through separate reporting plans intentionally misleading not only the American people but the Congress as well. Now, a historian, Henry Steele Commager, made one statement that I would like to attach I think appropriately to the considered judgments of my friend from California. He said, It would be a pity to impeach Mr. Nixon on grounds that are technical or vulgar if such offenses are all that is involved. The Nation could afford to wait three more years for the moment when Mr. Nixon would be automatically retired to that private life which he so richly merits. Harold D. Donohue (D Massachusetts). The time of the gentleman from California, Mr. Waldie, has expired.