Man Who Led Nixon Impeachment Dies

[IChing]

Man Who Led Nixon Impeachment Dies

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
Associated Press Writer





TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Peter W. Rodino Jr., a little-noticed Democratic congressman until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95.

The raspy-voiced son of an Italian immigrant, Rodino died of congestive heart failure at his West Orange home, said Christine Bland, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall University Law School, where Rodino was a professor.

Rodino spent 10 years working his way through law school at night and after one unsuccessful campaign, won election to Congress in 1948. He was re-elected 19 times.
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[IChing]

1. I watched the watergate hearings

He will truly be missed,

Political pressure had been building over charges that Nixon had abused his presidential powers to cover up connections between the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and his 1972 re-election effort. The hearings resulted in the first vote in favor of impeachment of a president in 106 years.

Rodino often would say his claim to fame prior to the Watergate hearings was sponsoring the bill that made Columbus Day a national holiday.

However, he also authored the Judiciary Committee's reports on which the civil rights bills of 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1968 were based. He helped secure House passage of immigration reforms that did away with quotas in 1965 and was instrumental in the passage of the fair-housing law in 1966

[havocmom]

2. A grand American public servant

Too bad the breed is extinct.

Raise your glasses, boys & girls and drink to the peace of a man who did much good.

[Botany]

3. Pete Lives!

In John Conyers.


Thank you Pete!

[IChing]

4. I see the same cosmic irony

That he's looking down at this presidential nightmare unfolding, once again and guiding it to where it justly should go

[jaysunb]

5. A Great and Good American

RIP

[bush_is_wacko]

6. Just one more of the TRUTH seekers and tellers...

Many people have suggested he was DEEP THROAT. He adamantly denied it.

Sad news...

[robertarctor]

7. I thought "Deep Throat" was ...

... the daddy of the current Chimpostor-In-Chief, Jethro Mussolini.

[struggle4progress]

8. How could he possibly have been Administration insider Deep Throat?