Conyers Ulysses: Some work of noble note
(Part 2 of a series)
Ulysses
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known,– cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honor’d of them all,–
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!
As tho’ to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought . . .
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me,–
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads,– you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.
‘T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,–
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
First page of argument re: Nixon indictment
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second page of argument re: Nixon indictment
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“I’m not doing this to fail,” he said. “This goes back to a little bit of my civil rights background. We were in an impossible situation. The civil rights leaders came to Martin King and said, please, we hear you’re going to start a civil rights movement in the South, you’ll get all of us killed, Martin, don’t do that!” But if he hadn’t, said Conyers, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would never have passed.
“We’ve lost more rights and constitutional prerogatives in this short period of time than under any president that my studies reveal,” he continued. “So now’s the time. What we have to do is, we have to work on faith. We have to believe that there are enough American people who will agree with us that enough is enough. We’ve got to believe that, and we’ve got to work on that between now and November, and I think we’ll win.”
– John Conyers, March 2006
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Conyers, John. “Why Nixon Should Be Impeached.” Black Scholar 6:2(1974): 2-8
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The two-page ad, headlined “A Resolution to Impeach Richard M. Nixon,” called on the newspaper’s readers to support House Resolution 976, which had been proposed several weeks earlier by Michigan Congressman John Conyers and several other liberal representatives.
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In May 1972, Conyers introduced a resolution on the House floor demanding that Nixon be removed from office for his conduct of the Vietnam War. The measure went nowhere, but Conyers kept at it for the next two years, and when the Judiciary Committee finally voted in favor of impeaching Nixon, Conyers relished his vindication. “Impeachment is difficult, and it is painful,” Conyers said at the time, “but the courage to do what must be done is the price of remaining free.”
— Time magazine, September 28, 1998
Do a google search for the word impeach along with the names of all your hellos see read and Manuel
In the autumn of 1974, a young firebrand on the House Judiciary Committee, unhappy about the way the Watergate investigation had turned out, penned an article for the Journal the black scholar.. Sat down to write an article for the Journal, the black scholar. The young man was dissatisfied with the way the Watergate investigation turned out. He felt very strongly that justice had not been done, and, perhaps more importantly, that the long-term interests of the United States in the defense of the Constitution had been ill served by the resignation of President Richard Nixon. This article was written before the pardon issued by President Gerald Ford.
Look for some of Conyers quotes, recent quote, about impeachment.
A re reading of Conyers article, these 34 years later, evokes many thoughts and feelings. Overall, the piece could serve as a virtual template to for a manifesto arguing for the impeachment of the current administration. Conyers main thrust in the 1974 article, his main rationale for the absolute necessity of impeaching Richard Nixon, centers around the illegality of the conduct of the war in Vietnam.; specifically, the illegal invasion and bombing of Cambodia. Conyers argues that the usurpation of congresses war making our is, in itself, an impeachable offense:
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from the document, Rodino’s opening statement:
Mr. Rodino. Three months ago the House of Representatives considered H.
Res. 803. The resolution read as follows:
“RESOLVED, That the Committee on the Judiciary, acting as a whole or by
any subcomnlittee thereof appointed by the Chairman for the purposes hereof and in
accordance with the rules of the Committee, is authorized and directed to investigate fully
and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to
exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United
States of America. The Committee shall report to the House of
Representatives such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other recommendations
as it deems proper.”
The House adopted that resolution by a vote of 410 to 4. We are proceeding
under the mandate of that resolution.
I do not need to stress again the importance of our undertaking and the wisdom,
decency and principle which we must bring to it.
We understand our high constitutional responsibility. We will faithfully live
up to it.
For some time we have known that the real security of this nation lies in the
integrity of its institutions and the trust and informed confidence of its people. We conduct
our deliberations in that spirit.
Do a google search for the word impeach along with the names of all your hello see read Emmanuelle
In the autumn of 1974, a young firebrand on the House Judiciary Committee, unhappy about the way the Watergate investigation had turned out, penned an article for the Journal the black scholar.. Sat down to write an article for the Journal, the black scholar. The young man was dissatisfied with the way the Watergate investigation turned out. He felt very strongly that justice had not been done, and, perhaps more importantly, that the long-term interests of the United States in the defense of the Constitution had been ill served by the resignation of President Richard Nixon. This article was written before the pardon issued by President Gerald Ford.
Look for some of Conyers quotes, recent quote, about impeachment.
A re reading of Conyers article, these 34 years later, he evokes many thoughts and feelings. Overall, the piece could serve as a virtual template to for a manifesto arguing for the impeachment of the current administration. Conyers main thrust in the 1974 article, his main rationale for the absolute necessity of impeaching Richard Nixon, centers around the illegality of the conduct of the war in Vietnam.; specifically, the illegal invasion and bombing of Cambodia. Conyers argues that the usurpation of congresses war making our is, in itself, an impeachable offense:
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Why would Conyers – a man who wrote a pamphlet entitled, “impeaching the president” or whatever it’s called – suddenly tone down his rhetoric regarding impeachment? And why would he do it immediately after the November 9, 2006 congressional elections?
Use this for the introduction to the first of Conyers’s diary:
In September 1974, John Conyers Jr. had been a congressman for five years. Elected in 1968 as the youngest member ever to represent such a district in Michigan, . Conyers and your describes the work he did during Watergate hearings so forth. But before the judiciary committee could serve its articles of on Nixon, he resigned. His resignation, however, did not dissuade certain people from demanding or believing that his crimes should not go unpunished. One of those people was John Conyers. In the September 1974 issue of the journal the black scholar, Conyers wrote a piece entitled, “why Nixon should have been Impeached.” In the essay, Conyers lays out his case for the necessity of impeaching Richard Nixon, in spite of the fact that he no longer was in office. The parallels between the Nixon administration’s history of malfeasance and that of the current administration are striking. With very few minor changes, what Conyers wrote in 1974 could have been written last week.
Conyers of central thesis is that one of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon-an article he actually drafted, and which he reprints in the article-should have held them makes into account for his illegal waging a war against Cambodia. Conyers makes the point that, aside from starting an illegal war, the administration usurped congressional power by using money (that is, to wage war against Cambodia) in a way not authorized by Congress. Conyers says that Congress the road at its future efficacy by allowing such a usurpation to go forward without mention.
Conyers also lists several examples of Nixon administration officials going on the record with misstatements of fact (known in the vernacular as “lies”) arguing in support of the Cambodian invasion. Conyers’ recounting of these public lies immediately brought to my mind the recent documentation of the “935 lies” by the Center for Public Integrity, lies that the BushCheney administration told to rationalize the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
As I read through the entire Conyers article, I would highlight those passages in which I found striking parallels to today’s situation. By the time I finish the article, I found that I highlighted nearly the entire thing. What John Conyers wrote in 1974 applies nearly perfectly in nearly every instance to this current administration. The misdeeds of the Nixon administration resulted in articles of impeachment being drawn up by a House Judiciary Committee whose members included, not only John Conyers, but also Charlie wrangle of New York.
The absolute necessity to defend our Constitution against “a long train of usurpations” is no less pressing today than it was back then., and I wonder how it is that John Conyers of 2008 can look upon the last seven years of the Bush Cheney administration and not find it worthy of every bit of the opprobrium and constitutional accountability that the Nixon administration so richly deserved, but managed to squirm out from under a, much to the chagrin of the then 45-year-old Conyers. I wonder whether Conyers, perhaps against the better Angels of his nature, has been ordered to stand down on the subject of impeachment of this most criminal administration in our nations history, and is even now writing an update for his 1974 article, to be published in February 2009, entitled the why Bush and Cheney should have been a peek.
Add to the earlier paragraph: ordered to stand down by a weak willed Democratic “leadership,”
It would be a shame if Conyers only legacy.
John Conyers is 75 years old now.
John Conyers and 79 years old now. It would be a shame if his only legacy with respect to bringing this criminal administration to account consists of a few ineffectual hearings and a couple of articles that no one will notice, and very few will be able to find on a Google search 35 years hence.
As for the dismantling the arguments diary: news
Some would argue that all that is needed to deal with this criminal administration is the result of a new general election. And, of course, at this point, it appears likely that-absent election fraud-id. the Craddick administration will take its place in the White House next January. This argument, of course, holds no water. Because of the magnitude of the crimes that were committed to, both against many peoples of the world and against the Constitution of the United States, the many many wrongs of the Bush Cheney administration cannot go unaccounted for., anymore than good for crimes of any other war criminal. Think about it: much of the rest of the world wants to put Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney on trial as war criminals, yet there are those in this country seriously propose to let them off scot free, as if they had done no wrong whatsoever.
For the Conyers Ulysses jar: some work of noble note.
Just for the dismantling the arguments diary:
Site the diary by Mark the shark
And so what if nothing further gets done by the hundred 10th Congress? What has been done by the hundred 10th Congress? Let’s take a look at the record: and here cite the votes on FISA if I as a, and other bad votes, and the failure to stop the war in Iraq, and the veto of S. Chip, and the failure of subpoenas,
In May 1972, then 45-year-old John Conyers, a second term congressman from Michigan, introduced a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives calling for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. Conyers is resolution, HR976, cited Nixon’s conduct of the war in Vietnam as grounds for his removal from office for the commission of high crimes and misdemeanors pursuant to the Constitution.
Conyers is resolution went nowhere, but neither did Conyers. The groundswell of support for Nixon’s impeachment continue to grow, and two years later, Nixon resigned from office.
Conyers was a member of the House Judiciary committee that drafted the articles of impeachment for Nixon, articles that were never served, preempted instead by Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974. Or obviated by Nixon’s resignation. Those are three articles cited Nixon’s obstruction of justice and beer fill in the blank as grounds for impeachment. The issue of Nixon’s conduct of the war was not included in. But Conyers did not forget what Nixon had done that originally inspired the young congressman’s call for impeachment. Paragraph
Two months after Nixon’s resignation, an article appeared in the Journal the black scholar. Written by John Conyers Jr., the article, entitled White Nick “why Nixon should have been impeached,” was a recounting of the mendacity and malfeasance of the Nixon administration. In much of the article con, Conyers details his rationale for impeachment, viewed through the lens of the conduct of the war in Vietnam.
And we are put in the paragraph about how reading the article now is so familiar.
And after that, put a citation, a block quote, that summarizes the article.
Rereading the article, one cannot help but think that if the wrongs he enumerated by Conyers in 1974 were sufficient to lead to the drafting of articles of impeachment, the far more egregious transgressions of the Bush Cheney administration over the past seven years certainly warrants as equals want to treatment. Or it’s certainly warrants being addressed in the same manner.
Year, cite another block quote.
Then, put in the quote for the section about highlighting almost the entire article.
