Barbara Jordan: “The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment”

Glossary

• “It is designed as a method of national quotation inquest …” from Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 65
• “nothing short of the grossest offenses …” quotation from Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government (1901)
• “The subjects of its jurisdiction …” quotation from John Jay, Federalist 64
• “Who can so properly be the inquisitors …” quotation from Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 65
• Daniel Ellsberg author of the Pentagon Papers, a study critical of the conduct of the war in Vietnam
• Dita Beard ITT affair reference to Dita Beard, a lobbyist for International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, and allegations that the government dismissed an antitrust suit against the company in exchange for a large cash contribution to the Republican Party in 1972
• Dr. Fielding Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, whose office was broken into by the White House “plumbers”
• E. Howard Hunt former Central Intelligence Agency agent who worked for President Richard Nixon
• Ehrlichman John Ehrlichman, a key adviser to President Richard Nixon before and during the Watergate scandal
• Henry Petersen member of the Justice Department who was the initial investigator of the Watergate break-in
• Huston plan a report outlining proposed security plans written by White House aide Timothy Huston in 1970
• Justice Story Joseph Story, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1812–1845)
• Woodrow Wilson twenty-eighth president of the United States
• Young David R. Young, an assistant to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Nixon administration