Congressman Lawrence Hogan, Sr.

FBI has established that high Republican officials had ordered a major political campaign of spying and sabotage to reassure President Nixon's re-election this year Party Loyalty and personal affection and precedence of the P Must Fall I think before the Arbiter of men's action the law itself no man not even the president of the United States is above the law for our system of justice and our our system of government to survive we must pledge our highest allegiance to the strength of the law and not to the common frailties of men Richard Nixon has Beyond A Reasonable Doubt committed impeachable offenses which in my judgment are of sufficient magnitude that he should be removed from office now that announcement was met with a great deal of criticism from Friends from government officials from colleagues in Congress but it's impossible for me to condone or ignore the long train of abuses to which he has subjected the presidency and the people of this country the Constitution and my own oath of office demand that I bear true faith and allegiance to the principles of Law and Justice upon which this nation was founded and I cannot in good conscience turn away from the evidence of evil that is to me so clear and compelling the fact is and the thing that's so appalling to me is that the president when this whole idea was suggested to him didn't in righteous indignation rise up and say get out of here you're in the Office of the President of the United States how can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping Witnesses silent this is the presidency of the United States and throw them out of his office and pick up the phone and call the Department of Justice and tell them there's an obstruction of justice going on someone's trying to buy The Silence of a witness but my president didn't do that he sat there and he worked and worked to try to cover this thing up so it wouldn't come to light and as much as it pains me to say it he should be impeached and removed from office a Maryland Congressman a republican sat on the house Judiciary Committee during Watergate and the entire world was watching would this man be willing to Buck his own party his own president to do what he thought was right for the country despite tremendous pressure this Statesman put aside partisanship and made the tough decision and he became the first Republican to come out for the impeachment of President Nixon that man was my dad the dad put aside Party politics and his own person personal considerations in order to do the right thing for the nation and I'm going to get emotional now and he taught me more about integrity in one day than most men learn in a lifetime and I am so proud to be his son