The following is a book review of mine from 2013. The book....Catching Our Flag, Behind The Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment....deals with the impeachment trial of President Clinton. If we are headed to an impeachment again today then this book should be read....for it confirms the reality of the situation....he who holds the gavel....wields the scepter.
Catching Our Flag....February 9, 2013
Congressman James E. Rogan was one of the House Managers during Bill Clinton's impeachment. He kept a daily journal of those proceedings for the purpose of getting it right if ever called upon to recount those days. Joseph Farah and WND Books called and James Rogan's testimony on this will be invaluable if impeachment proceedings are brought against this current president. (Barack Obama) The book is Catching Our Flag, Behind The Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment.
James Rogan's book is easy to read.....even enjoyable. The journal entries are in bold print as the author's commentary takes the reader right into both formal and informal meetings on the House decision to impeach....and the Senate decision to abort.
Dozens of characters that we mostly know from press clippings, such as Henry Hyde, come alive in the book, and a lot of those names are still in the Congress. There's plenty of personal anecdotes.....and some humorous. Congressman Sonny Bono makes an appearance. He wasn't a key player in this drama but he was a good friend of the author....as both men came from rough backgrounds but wound up in the United States House of Representatives. The author relates that one day as the two of them were in the chamber....Sonny looked around at where....as he described the chamber....Lincoln, Webster, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford served....and said to Rogan...."Here you are a guy who used to bar tend on the Sunset Strip. Here I am a guy who used to drive a meat truck on the Sunset Strip. Don't you ever look around this chamber and wonder how....we ever got here?" Rogan responded...."Sonny....I sit here all the time....look around this chamber....and wonder how you ever got here. I know how I got here. I went to law school." So is this just a good book to read.....a walk down memory lane if you're old enough to remember those days? No, it's more like cardiopulmonary resuscitation directions as Uncle Sam lies in the capital rotunda clutching his heart.
President William Jefferson Clinton should never have been given a free pass. Read in this book of the charges that should have been brought to the impeachment trial. Read of a United States Senate that will make you want to vomit your last meal. Read about the few real American heroes that were in our Congress....and read of the ones that let all of us down. This book should be read in political science classes and law schools. And don't even think about impeaching Barack Obama without studying what happened with Bill Clinton....for David Axelrod probably already read it and took copious notes. I'll leave you with this quote on the failed attempt by the House to have a legitimate trial in the Senate...."As the record now shows, we 'tried' our case on their terms. The Senate refused to allow us to call a single witness. These was no direct or cross-examination. This scripted procedure preordained the exoneration of President Clinton. It was no trial, in any meaningful sense of the word. Yet today. every history book and public account records that Clinton won acquittal after a Senate impeachment 'trial'."
Catching Our Flag....February 9, 2013
Congressman James E. Rogan was one of the House Managers during Bill Clinton's impeachment. He kept a daily journal of those proceedings for the purpose of getting it right if ever called upon to recount those days. Joseph Farah and WND Books called and James Rogan's testimony on this will be invaluable if impeachment proceedings are brought against this current president. (Barack Obama) The book is Catching Our Flag, Behind The Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment.
James Rogan's book is easy to read.....even enjoyable. The journal entries are in bold print as the author's commentary takes the reader right into both formal and informal meetings on the House decision to impeach....and the Senate decision to abort.
Dozens of characters that we mostly know from press clippings, such as Henry Hyde, come alive in the book, and a lot of those names are still in the Congress. There's plenty of personal anecdotes.....and some humorous. Congressman Sonny Bono makes an appearance. He wasn't a key player in this drama but he was a good friend of the author....as both men came from rough backgrounds but wound up in the United States House of Representatives. The author relates that one day as the two of them were in the chamber....Sonny looked around at where....as he described the chamber....Lincoln, Webster, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford served....and said to Rogan...."Here you are a guy who used to bar tend on the Sunset Strip. Here I am a guy who used to drive a meat truck on the Sunset Strip. Don't you ever look around this chamber and wonder how....we ever got here?" Rogan responded...."Sonny....I sit here all the time....look around this chamber....and wonder how you ever got here. I know how I got here. I went to law school." So is this just a good book to read.....a walk down memory lane if you're old enough to remember those days? No, it's more like cardiopulmonary resuscitation directions as Uncle Sam lies in the capital rotunda clutching his heart.
President William Jefferson Clinton should never have been given a free pass. Read in this book of the charges that should have been brought to the impeachment trial. Read of a United States Senate that will make you want to vomit your last meal. Read about the few real American heroes that were in our Congress....and read of the ones that let all of us down. This book should be read in political science classes and law schools. And don't even think about impeaching Barack Obama without studying what happened with Bill Clinton....for David Axelrod probably already read it and took copious notes. I'll leave you with this quote on the failed attempt by the House to have a legitimate trial in the Senate...."As the record now shows, we 'tried' our case on their terms. The Senate refused to allow us to call a single witness. These was no direct or cross-examination. This scripted procedure preordained the exoneration of President Clinton. It was no trial, in any meaningful sense of the word. Yet today. every history book and public account records that Clinton won acquittal after a Senate impeachment 'trial'."
