
Richard Ben-Veniste and William Cohen on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in
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How Did This Affect the House Judiciary Committee?
The house judiciary committee was then charged with determining whether or not a impeachment, a proceeding, should be initiated against the president. Once eliot richardson resigned and a new prosecutor had to be ointed, leon jorsky was appointed by richard nixon. The democrats certainly on the committee, and i think representing a broader spectrum, inan the house itself, were opposed to having gorsky appointed. So I wrote an oped saying that the democrats were wrong. They should not interfere with georsky being appointed, because, as Richard benveniski mentioned, the staff was not dismissed. And all i did was basically say that now jos
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