Former Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr., a Democratic congressman who rose to prominence amid crisis by presiding over the House impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95. Rodino, the son of an Italian immigrant, died of congestive heart failure at his home in West Orange, said Christine Bland, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall University Law School, where Rodino was a professor.
SOME people in public life strike you with their sheer presence, their ability to command everyone's attention just by stepping into the room. Others go about their lives more quietly, just trying to do their best in a job they consider important. , the congressman from Newark who chaired the impeachment hearings that brought down the Nixon presidency, was in the second category. A short man with a reedy tenor voice, he came across as a decent but ordinary person who happened to have risen to a key position in Congress.
TRENTON, N.J. -- Peter W. Rodino Jr., a little-noticed Democratic congressman until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95. The raspy-voiced son of an Italian immigrant, Rodino died of congestive heart failure at his West Orange home, said Christine Bland, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall University Law School, where Rodino was a professor.
WASHINGTON, May 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on the passing of former Congressman Peter W. Rodino Jr. (D-N.J.): A man of integrity and humility, Congressman Peter Rodino was a great American who served our nation with great dignity and honor.
Andrew P. Napolitano worked as a summer intern for Peter Rodino eight years before the New Jersey congressman chaired the impeachment hearings that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of New Jersey, he is senior judicial analyst at Fox News.
TRENTON, N.J. Peter Rodino, a little-noticed Demo-cratic congressman until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Richard Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95. The raspy-voiced son of an Italian immigrant, Rodino died of congestive heart failure at his West Orange home, said Christine Bland, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall University Law School, where Rodino was a professor.
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