"... impeachment is going to hit this
Congress " So spoke Democratic
Majority Leader Thomas P. (Tip)
O Neill in January of 1973. He was
addressing Speaker of the House Carl
Albert.
O Neill, an enormous figure of a man
who comes from the wrong section of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, wasn t
indulging in partisan prophecy; he was
speaking, rather, from years of hard
political experience, about a nasty busi-
ness which he felt tg be inevitable.
In the spring of 1974 Jimmy Breslin
went to Washington to observe at first
hand the inching along of the cumber-
some process. Breslin did not, however,
spend his time in court and committee
rooms. He preferred to work the offices on
and near Capitol Hill, to talk informallv
with the congressmen, the lawyers--and
their aides--who were laboriously putting
together the mountain of paper that was
to bury Richard Nixon: he even visited
Allenwood Prison in the "businesslike"
hills of Pennsylvania.
Those names and faces which became
so familiar to us in a two-dimensional way
last summer are now clad in flesh and
sweat. As are dozens of men and women
who never saw a television camera but
who were equally dedicated to keeping
the resolution of a dirty affair clean.
Woven in among his often telling,
sometimes devastating stories of the great
and near-great is Breslin s theory about
the illusion of power, that strange admix-
ture of mirrors and blue smoke: if the
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