Upfront and been out there aggressive or anything of that sort. That is not my style. I believe in building on a consensus and recognizing that that kind of leadership is going to have its effect. However, were those, who wanted to create, at the ade, or to have created an Hoc Committee and have a speaker committeethe ad hoc to conduct the inquiry. Me onr albert talked with a number of occasions. He had great confidence in me. He placed this confidence in me. Fact, thereing that are those who even after i became the chairman who were intent on taking another course of action. Remember the attempt on the part of some to delay the ford, toion of jerry be Vice President , thinking that theibly we might delay confirmation of jerry ford to be Vice President since we were implementing the 25th amendment, and that maybe we would proceed with the impeachment of Richard Nixon, impeach Richard Nixon, and then there would be a vacancy in the last presidency since spira agnew had been compelled to
Timothy we are here on april 5th, 2007 with Elizabeth Holtzman with the Richard Nixon oral history program. We are taping this in new york city. Hello, liz. Thank you for joining us. Rep. Holtzman glad to do this. Timothy lets start, its the summer of 1972. You have toppled a Senior Leader of the Democratic Congressional leadership. Youre running for office. The watergate breakin takes place. Youre very busy running for office. Do you notice it at all . Rep. Holtzman just barely. Actually, the irony is that there was a breakin in had i own Campaign Headquarters roughly around that time and a really ugly incident and people actually got beat up and had to get taken to the hospital. So i was worried about my own campaign and worried about my own Campaign Workers and worried about the breakin at my Campaign Headquarters. So watergate was just a kind of far in the distance, thunder far in the distance. Timothy you get elected. Rep. Holtzman i won the primary. That was in brooklyn, the equi
Q a in 2009. Another photo people might recognize. Washat is in 1974 when i special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee investigating the conduct of president nixon. Hillary clinton is standing next next to her is joseph woods of oakland, california, who was my associate as counsel of the committee, counsel to the committee. We were at law school. Counsel youo Service Counsel to peter rodino for how long . First of january 1973, and 48 or nine months in 1974. The conclusion that articles passed by the committee, when you read about your role in that, some say you convinced some of the republicans to come vote with the democrats against president nixon. I dont think that is accurate. I think the way the evidence was presented by the lawyers that , the for me persuaded Committee Members to vote yes. We set for ourselves a standard to conduct a standard of the investigation, that we would not be satisfied unless we got a two thirds vote. Peter rodino did not want to get a bear major
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First year, maybe. Work with her,to and moved to cambridge began working, doing investigations and litigation around issues like the incarceration of juveniles with orlts in adult prisons efforts to give tax exempt status to private segregated academies so they didnt have to pay taxes. Expanding childcare, Getting Better conditions for migrant workers, that is the kind of work we were doing and thats what i started doing when i went right to cambridge to work for her. Call. L us about the this is a funny series of actions. I was visiting bill in arkansas i think right after christmas, either right before or after. Rang and he got a call from john doerr. , i have been asked to put together a team of lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether there are grounds for impeachment of president nixon, and i have a list of people and you are at the top of the list if you would like to come to work. Bill said, im going to run for congress. Bill said, who else is on your lis