Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974
05.09 Peter Rodino (D New Jersey). I recognize the gentleman from California, Mr. Danielson, for 5 minutes. George Danielson (D - California). Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have been rearguing evidence and facts all day and the evidence closed on Wednesday of last week. I suggest that we get back to discussing the pleadings. No. 2, I wish to make it clear in the record that I do not concur with the opinion of my colleague from California, Mr. Wiggins, on constitutional law as applies to impeachment proceedings. I yield to my colleague from California, Mr. Edwards.
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974
05.50 Don Edwards (D California). I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I will not take long. This is a very simple section one, making false and misleading statements lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States. The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Railsback, has provided us definite information, time, chapter, and verse, and in depth, some very definite testimony about where the President made the false statements to a lawfully authorized investigative officer, the head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, Mr. Henry Petersen. And in addition to that, false statements made by the President to Attorney General Kleindienst. Mr. Wiggins says this does not count because Judge Gesell made some sort of a ruling the other day in a criminal proceedings and I'm sure Mr. Wiggins really did not mean that to apply to this case. We are certainly not dealing in a criminal proceeding. I really do not know what more, Mr. Chairman, we are supposed to do in this modest section. It seems to me that we have provided the information, the evidence, to comply with it. And I think we ought to move along.
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974
[00.07.07] George Danielson (D - California). I submit that we should get on with the work which is cut out for us, to vote on some articles of impeachment. I submit at we should quit setting up straw men and knocking them down and I yield back to the Chair the balance of my time.