Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States : report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Peter W. Rodino, Jr., chairman

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Wraps. Condition: as new. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Book I, January 31-May 15, 1974, iii, 702, [2] pages; Book II, May 16-June 19, 1974 iii, [1], 703-1454; Book III, June 20-July 23, 1974, iii, [1], 1455-2258 pages. Footnotes. Appendixes. An impeachment process against Richard Nixon began in the United States House of Representatives on October 30, 1973, following the "Saturday Night Massacre" episode of the Watergate scandal. The House Judiciary Committee set up an impeachment inquiry staff and began investigations into possible impeachable offenses by Richard Nixon. The process was formally initiated on February 6, 1974, when the House of Representatives passed a resolution, H. Res. 803, giving the Judiciary Committee authority to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed to impeach Nixon[1] of high crimes and misdemeanors, primarily related to Watergate. The Impeachment Inquiry staff hired 34 counsels reporting to Doar or the other senior lawyers on the staff. One who later became well-known was William Weld. He worked on researching case law regarding what constituted grounds for presidential impeachment. This was requested since it was over a hundred years since the last such effort had taken place and representatives desired guidance on the matter; even the last impeachment of a federal judge had been almost forty years earlier. Weld also worked on studying whether impoundment of appropriated funds was an impeachable offense. Another staff member was Hillary Rodham. Under the guidance of Doar and Nussbaum, Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and, like Weld, the historical grounds and standards for impeachment. As part of this she wrote a brief supporting Rodino's belief that during initial evidentiary hearings to determine whether potential grounds for impeachment exist, the target of the possible impeachment has no right to representation by counsel at the hearings. N° de ref. del artículo SP680

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