The November 15 issue of The Washington Spectator features an article by Elizabeth Holtzman, who, as a congresswoman from New York, was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative Peter Rodino of New Jersey during that tense period in the seventies when the issue of impeachment was being considered.  

The  Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon, which would have resulted in a trial before the Senate had the besieged and increasingly unpopular chief executive not been coaxed into resigning.  

Republican elder statesman, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, along with the party's leaders in the Senate and House, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and John Rhodes of Ar