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.
Peter Rodino (D New Jersey). The gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Seiberling, is recognized for 5 minutes. John Seiberling (D Ohio). Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try not to take 5 minutes. I think the gentleman from Wisconsin has made a constructive suggestion if I understand it correctly. As I understand it, you are not demanding that the Articles necessarily spell out, all of the specific details, but that we have before us in considering the subparagraphs the evidentiary facts outlined in some way so that we can see what staff thinks are the things, at least some of the things that support them. Is that correct? Harold Froehlich (R Wisconsin). Yes. Yes, if the gentleman will yield. John Seiberling (D Ohio). I think that is a very excellent suggestion.
Watergate Impeachment Hearings House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974.
33.34 John Seiberling (D Ohio). I would like to comment on one other matter. I think that these 11 hours or 12 hours have not been wasted. I think if we can arrive at some consensus to how to proceed along the lines like this we are not wasting our time. I do feel that time is very pressing. The country has grave problems which are being impeded, the handling of which are being impeded by the uncertainty caused by the impeachment situation and we must, we owe it to the country to move ahead. I would also just like to make one other comment and then I am going to yield to the gentleman from Missouri, and that is that we would, we could I have spent days and days wrangling over the specifics of a very detailed Article of Impeachment here, much more than we have been discussing the principles of what should be the article of impeachment. And I think that the staff and the people who drew this up have really approached it in the right way and can give proper notice to the President. I yield to the gentleman from Missouri.
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34.47 William Hungate (D Missouri). I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I was interested in the remarks of the gentleman from Iowa, Mr. Mayne, who is an experienced trial attorney. I would inquire of him if we are not facing the problem of where we have a pleading drawn that somebody was hit on such and such a day and such and such a street, and he is hurt. And you file a motion to make it more definite and certain, and the man comes in and says, well, his head and his scalp were contused and abused and his ears and eyes. And then he tells so much that you don t know any more when you get done than you did when you started. I am sure the gentleman has had that sort of experience in the trial practice. And is not what we are doing trying to strike some middle ground on this? William Hungate (D Missouri). I yield to the gentleman from Iowa his time. John Seiberling (D Ohio). May I say I received a telegram tonight from a prominent businessman in Green Bay, Wisconsin, which I believe is the gentleman's district, saying that he thinks that this proceeding is going in a very, very fine way. And I think the gentleman from Wisconsin has helped to contribute to that. I yield, who was it William Hungate (D Missouri). I want to yield to the gentleman from Iowa, if you would please, Mr. Mayne. Wiley Mayne (R Iowa). Well, it would be my experience, if the gentleman from Missouri yield, that we would at least state the name the date and the nature of a misstatement not in an accident case, which this is not, but in a case involving misstatements or alleged fraud or anything involving dishonesty as is the thrust of this subparagraph. John Seiberling (D Ohio). If the gentleman Wiley Mayne (R Iowa). I think it would be defective. John Seiberling (D Ohio). I would like to yield to the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Railsback, if the gentleman from Iowa is completed. Wiley Mayne (R Iowa). I am completed.