Former Republican Rep. Thomas Railsback, who said he had to support Nixon's impeachment because 'the evidence was there,' dies at 87.
News anchor Jim Lehrer appeared 12 times as a presidential debate moderator and helped build “PBS NewsHour” into an authoritative voice of public broadcasting. The program, first called “The Robert MacNeil Report” and then “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report,” became the nation’s first one-hour TV news broadcast in 1983. Lehrer was 85.
According to LaHood, Railsback was saddened by the current state of affairs in Washington and the unwillingness of people to compromise. He called Railsback’s death “the end of an era in politics.” Railsback was one of four Republicans and three conservative Democrats who drafted two of the three impeachment articles against Nixon, which were adopted by the House. Nixon resigned before a trial in the Senate.
In a 2012 New York Times op-ed, Railsback noted the Democrats won a landslide in the 1974 congressional elections. That landslide brought in “a group of brash” legislators, he said, who helped create an atmosphere of ”division and unease,” and that by the time of the Clinton impeachment inquiry, the Judiciary Committee was much more partisan and the climate in Congress in 2014 “appeared even more fractured.
Railsback moved to Arizona from Idaho and retired after holding several jobs, including as an executive with the Motion Picture Assn. of America. He is survived by his second wife, Joye, and four daughters.Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning.
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