Death of American Virtue - Ken Gormley [527]
Seven House impeachment managers: “The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: The Impeachment Managers,” Harper’s Weekly, 1868, 179.
Alexander Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton, “The Federalist No. 65,” in The Federalist Papers, ed. Clinton Rossiter, 396.
The legal scholar Joseph Story: Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 4th ed. (ed. Thomas M. Cooley), vol. 2, section 803, p. 566.
Yet not everyone: Gerald R. Ford, remarks, U.S. House of Representatives, 15 Apr. 1970, 6, available at http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/700415f.htm.
He understood that in sharp contrast: Robert Dove, interview by author.
The record would be: The trial would have only moved into a second phase if two-thirds of the senators voted for it (Baker, The Breach, 269).
“Sometimes, a leader”: Trent Lott, interview by author.
Kendall and White House Counsel Charles Ruff: David Kendall, interview by author.
On December 30, Chairman Hyde: Baker, The Breach, 270.
Lott immediately phoned: Trent Lott, interview by author.
Hyde implored: Henry J. Hyde, interview by author.
“The walk looked like a funeral”: Carin Dessauer, “History in the Making: Clinton on Trial,” CNN AllPolitics, 7 Jan. 1999.
As cameras flashed: Congressional Record, 7 Jan. 1999; “Jan. 7: The Managers Arrive,” washingtonpost.com, 7 Jan. 1999.
Two hours later: The Senate escorts were Senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Robert Byrd (D-W.V.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) (Trent Lott, interview by author; Tom Daschle, interview by author).
“had a big laugh”: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, interview by author; Linda Greenhouse, “The Trial of the President: The Chief Justice; Rehnquist, in New Arena, Appears at Home,” New York Times, 8 Jan. 1999.
“sardonic”: Robert Dove, interview by author.
indicted Julie Hiatt Steele: “Grand Jury Indicts Witness in Willey Investigation,” CNN AllPolitics 7 Jan. 1999; Florence Graves and Jacqueline E. Sharkey, “Starr and Willey: The Untold Story,” Nation, 17 May 1999. For a discussion of the complicated Steele-Willey charges and countercharges, see Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton, afterword, 366–67.
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia: Baker, The Breach, 289.
Just as there seemed: For accounts of this closed-door session in the Old Senate Chamber, see Andrew Miga, Joe Battenfield, and Ellen J. Silberman, “Senate Agrees on Trial Ground Rules; Format Postpones Vote on Witnesses,” Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 1999, 1; Maria Recio, “Gramm Joins Kennedy to Forge Bipartisan Deal,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 1999, 6; Curt Anderson, “Amid Ghosts of Senate Past, Sides Seal Deal in Rare Private Session,” 9 Jan. 1999. See also “Press Conference on Senate Impeachment Procedure Agreement,” Federal News Services, 8 Jan. 1999.
“Well, what was [the deal]?”: Trent Lott, interview by author.
One key aspect: David Kendall, interview by author.
“It was a resolution which effectively gave a veto power”: Robert Dove, interview by author.
Although Senator Lott emphasized: Trent Lott, interview by author.
At noon on Thursday: See Ken Gormley, “Impeachment Trial, Day One,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 17 Jan. 1999.
“Is that it?”: David Kendall, interview by author.
Whatever the circus atmosphere: U.S. Senate, 106th Congress, 1st sess., 14 Jan. 1999, videotape (hereinafter cited as Senate video).
Chairman Henry Hyde: Congressional Record, 14 Jan. 1999; “The Impeachment Trial, Jan. 14: Hyde Opening Statement,” WashingtonPost.com, 14 Jan. 1999.
introduced his fellow managers: The initial speakers included Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., from Wisconsin, who