Posted on 05/07/2005 3:15:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Peter Rodino, Congressman who led Nixon impeachment hearing, dead at 96 The Associated Press
WEST ORANGE, N.J. - Former Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr., a little-noticed Democratic congressman until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Richard M. Nixon, has died. He was 96.
The raspy-voiced son of an Italian immigrant, Rodino died Saturday 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 try, won election to Congress in 1948. He was re-elected 19 times.
Born and reared in Newark, he often referred to his "Newark, New Jersey" roots in conversations with Washington heavyweights and media interviews. He later moved to Maplewood.
Rodino was named chairman of the House Judiciary Committee just months before the panel began its historic impeachment hearings in 1974.
He was the Gene Kelly voice double of the Watergate Commission...
He was mostly concerned with his own TV profile.
Great. Just in time for the-Sunday-talkshow-gabfests to run endless reams of grainy video of 31 years ago. It's what they all live for. Watergate. Nixon. Evil. It's why they are all (MSM) in the business.
I pray God rests his soul.
> Just in time for the-Sunday-talkshow-gabfests...Watergate. Nixon. Evil.
And watch them imply that President Nixon actually *was* impeached, at the same time making clinton smell like a rose.
I wonder if he's saying hello to Big Pussy, Ralphie, Jackie Aprile, Jackie Jr, Olivia, and the others at the Big Barbeque?
The Libs and the media have succeeded in rolling all of JFK and LBJ's Viet Nam sins on Nixon. You can criticize Nixon for many things, but Viet Nam wasn't his war.
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