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Watergate hitches hook hoof Washington Peter ter Lisagor M l WASHINGTON It fits like fits like the saddle on a cow That wry old Russian proverb may not be the worst description of what goes on here It is a zany season in which people seem to be welding wood to metal the crocodiles jog around ar um the zoo zoo the fish in the Potomac give milk cats shave have a conspiracy conspiracy going with the mice the roosters lay eggs stripper Blaze Starr is conducting a course in diplomatic etiquette and Henry Kissinger plans to open a school for acrobats featuring double somersaults on a high wire A mild brand of lunacy is not un- un uncommon uncommon common in this village But what in in- inspires inspires inspires spires the improbable thoughts above is isa isa isa a disjointedness that threatens the normally tranquil mind The federal governors blame inflation on the public Reliable old propositions about the economy the supply of money the virtue of or hard work and thrift these falter The President holds a one-day one seminar with business leaders and economists talking about the time old religion economic c orthodoxy in a faithless time He then races toward the seashore to commune with his vision of future travels leaving subalterns to manage as best they can The real Catch 22 here centers on a topic A the endless drama of Watergate James D. D St St. Clair the Presidents President's gifted lawyer has strewn the landscape with legal barbed wire in which he has entangled the House the Supreme Court and common sense if a laymen in the law is still capable of an opinion on the case Paul Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote The ultimate evil is mans man's ability to make abstract that which is concrete Watergate is not yet a vast abstraction but its concreteness crumbles under the weight of arguments to which an an anor or or- ordinary ordinary defendant is entitled But is the President a the run-of-the-mill defendant What St St. Clair has done in the view of many is to make unbelievably complex that which is or started out to be relatively simple He argues none can claim a president is above the law Quash the very idea But as St. St Clair appears to read the Constitution a special sort of law ap ap- applies applies ap- ap applies plies to the chief executive executive- that in essence puts him I m beyond the reach of the courts This his would nullify nuU y Marbury vs Madison the 1303 1333 case in which the nine justices unanimously agreed the high court was the final arbiter of the Constitution n nm St. St Clair cI i isn't fi He makes common cause with Chairman Peter of the House Judiciary Committee in arguing the im im- impeachment impeachment im- im impeachment clause makes the House solely responsible for the ultimate fate of a President accused of high crimes and misdemeanors He lie parts company with however in affirming the Presidents President's right to determine for himself what is relevant or admissible in the impeachment inquiry If that doesn't put a president above the law then Catch 22 is a model of reason in instead in- in instead instead stead of being an irrational bar to logical conduct At the outset of the Watergate scandals the President declared he would tolerate m no of suspected criminal activity on the White House premises He vowed to cooperate fully with the authorities in their pursuit of justice The record on his performance is too dismal to bear repeating here beyond noting he has struggled to withhold evidence to balk the im im- impeachment impeachment im- im impeachment process to utilize every legal ploy St. St Clair has succeeded in dredging from the casebooks Is it unfair or too simple to ask even at this late date whether a President is entitled to hold the Congress in con con- contempt contempt contempt tempt through his defiance of the House for additional evidence Especially since he has insistently proclaimed his innocence of any wrongdoing The Supreme Sup Court Cant may yet restore a measure of ci sanity to these proceedings It has moved often where the Congress has cravenly feared to tread and the recent death eath of former chief justice Earl Warren reminds the nation it moved with courage and compassion into areas of passionate controversy in inthe inthe inthe the last two decades But one must be forearmed In this disjointed time nothing seems to fit
Object Description
| Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1974-07-13 |
| Description | 66th Year, No. 252 |
| Subject |
Columbia (Mo.) -- Newspapers Boone County (Mo.) -- Newspapers |
| Coverage | United States -- Missouri -- Boone County -- Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Date.Search | 1974-07-13 |
| Type | Newspapers |
| Format | |
| Collection Name | Columbia Missourian Newspaper Collection |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Library Systems |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for distribution or publication. |
| Contributing Institution |
State Historical Society of Missouri University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Journalism |
| Copy Request | Contact the State Historical Society of Missouri at: (800) 747-6366 or (573) 882-7083 or email contact@shsmo.org. Some fees apply: http://shsmo.org/research/researchfees |
| County |
Boone County (Mo.) |
Description
| Title | Columbia Missourian 1974-07-13 Watergate Hitches Hook Washington |
| Subject |
Columbia (Mo.) -- Newspapers Boone County (Mo.) -- Newspapers |
| Coverage | United States -- Missouri -- Boone County -- Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Date.Search | 1974-07-13 |
| Type | Newspaper |
| Format | |
| Collection Name | Columbia Missourian Newspaper Collection |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Library Systems |
| Contributing Institution | State Historical Society of Missouri <br> University of Missouri School of Journalism |
| Copy Request | Contact the State Historical Society of Missouri at: (800) 747-6366 or (573) 882-7083 or email contact@shsmo.org. Some fees apply: http://shsmo.org/research/researchfees |
| Item.Transcript | Watergate hitches hook hoof Washington Peter ter Lisagor M l WASHINGTON It fits like fits like the saddle on a cow That wry old Russian proverb may not be the worst description of what goes on here It is a zany season in which people seem to be welding wood to metal the crocodiles jog around ar um the zoo zoo the fish in the Potomac give milk cats shave have a conspiracy conspiracy going with the mice the roosters lay eggs stripper Blaze Starr is conducting a course in diplomatic etiquette and Henry Kissinger plans to open a school for acrobats featuring double somersaults on a high wire A mild brand of lunacy is not un- un uncommon uncommon common in this village But what in in- inspires inspires inspires spires the improbable thoughts above is isa isa isa a disjointedness that threatens the normally tranquil mind The federal governors blame inflation on the public Reliable old propositions about the economy the supply of money the virtue of or hard work and thrift these falter The President holds a one-day one seminar with business leaders and economists talking about the time old religion economic c orthodoxy in a faithless time He then races toward the seashore to commune with his vision of future travels leaving subalterns to manage as best they can The real Catch 22 here centers on a topic A the endless drama of Watergate James D. D St St. Clair the Presidents President's gifted lawyer has strewn the landscape with legal barbed wire in which he has entangled the House the Supreme Court and common sense if a laymen in the law is still capable of an opinion on the case Paul Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote The ultimate evil is mans man's ability to make abstract that which is concrete Watergate is not yet a vast abstraction but its concreteness crumbles under the weight of arguments to which an an anor or or- ordinary ordinary defendant is entitled But is the President a the run-of-the-mill defendant What St St. Clair has done in the view of many is to make unbelievably complex that which is or started out to be relatively simple He argues none can claim a president is above the law Quash the very idea But as St. St Clair appears to read the Constitution a special sort of law ap ap- applies applies ap- ap applies plies to the chief executive executive- that in essence puts him I m beyond the reach of the courts This his would nullify nuU y Marbury vs Madison the 1303 1333 case in which the nine justices unanimously agreed the high court was the final arbiter of the Constitution n nm St. St Clair cI i isn't fi He makes common cause with Chairman Peter of the House Judiciary Committee in arguing the im im- impeachment impeachment im- im impeachment clause makes the House solely responsible for the ultimate fate of a President accused of high crimes and misdemeanors He lie parts company with however in affirming the Presidents President's right to determine for himself what is relevant or admissible in the impeachment inquiry If that doesn't put a president above the law then Catch 22 is a model of reason in instead in- in instead instead stead of being an irrational bar to logical conduct At the outset of the Watergate scandals the President declared he would tolerate m no of suspected criminal activity on the White House premises He vowed to cooperate fully with the authorities in their pursuit of justice The record on his performance is too dismal to bear repeating here beyond noting he has struggled to withhold evidence to balk the im im- impeachment impeachment im- im impeachment process to utilize every legal ploy St. St Clair has succeeded in dredging from the casebooks Is it unfair or too simple to ask even at this late date whether a President is entitled to hold the Congress in con con- contempt contempt contempt tempt through his defiance of the House for additional evidence Especially since he has insistently proclaimed his innocence of any wrongdoing The Supreme Sup Court Cant may yet restore a measure of ci sanity to these proceedings It has moved often where the Congress has cravenly feared to tread and the recent death eath of former chief justice Earl Warren reminds the nation it moved with courage and compassion into areas of passionate controversy in inthe inthe inthe the last two decades But one must be forearmed In this disjointed time nothing seems to fit |
