In "Peter Rodino: US congressman whose fastidious chairmanship of the impeachment committee helped bring down Richard Nixon" by Harold Jackson, in tomorrow's Guardian, at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1479322,00.html , some notable excerpts are,
"...As it turned out, Rodino's shrewdest move was to recruit a Republican lawyer, John Doar, to head the investigation - the two men reinforced each other's belief that it was vital for public confidence to eschew partisanship....
...Rodino took no pleasure in the outcome; he said later that he had been praying that his committee would be able to exonerate Nixon. He was, however, outraged by President Gerald Ford's decision to issue a blanket pardon....
...He served in north Africa and Italy during the second world war, and was demobilised as a captain.
...He became one of the main congressional sponsors of President Lyndon Johnson's landmark legislation of 1966, and finally retired in 1988."
RIP PR. (1909-2005)