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Was Richard Nixon impeached? Yes, by a 412 to 3 vote
myvalleynews ^ | 03/09/2020 | Harold Pease, Ph.D.

Posted on 03/09/2020 10:24:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Most people hold that since former President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office as president before the full House of Representatives could vote on the articles of impeachment, he therefore was not impeached. But they omit the House vote 12 days after he resigned.

There were two votes on impeachment by the full House of Representatives. The first, Feb. 6, 1974, was a vote 410 for and 4 against, authorizing impeachment proceedings against Nixon which allowed the House Judiciary Committee to begin the formal inquiry. Talk of such had preceded this vote for several months. Thereafter, following six months of House inquiry that did not go well for Nixon, he resigned Aug. 8, 1974, before the full House voted to actually impeach him based on the findings of their Judiciary Committee. So technically Nixon was not impeached. Although accused, which is what impeachment is, in the public mind, there was no reason to proceed as removal from office was accomplished by Nixon’s resignation.

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1 posted on 03/09/2020 10:24:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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idiot.


2 posted on 03/09/2020 10:25:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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You can’t impeach a private citizen.


3 posted on 03/09/2020 10:27:12 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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But they omit the House vote 12 days after he resigned.

If he had already resigned then such a vote is meaningless.

4 posted on 03/09/2020 10:27:55 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oops, i accidentally slipped into a alternate Universe.


5 posted on 03/09/2020 10:28:25 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So . . . when we take the House back, let’s impeach EVERY D Rat Progressive POS President that has ever been.

Would mean as much as ‘peachin’ Nixon after he resigned.


6 posted on 03/09/2020 10:30:12 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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RR was completing his 2nd term as Calif. Governor at the time. He would have been the perfect pick but the country was not ready for him. Nixon was like the Bushes and Ford. Tried to get along with their enemies. I don’t think the country was ready for Trump either, at least before 2016.


7 posted on 03/09/2020 10:30:41 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He wasn’t president when August 20 rolled around, so it’s impossible for him to have been impeached. So simple a child could see it.


8 posted on 03/09/2020 10:32:01 AM PDT by Technical Editor
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Those House votes carry about as much weight,legally and historically,as the very same votes against me would have carried.


9 posted on 03/09/2020 10:32:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If I shoot a corpse, am I a murderer?


10 posted on 03/09/2020 10:33:10 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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What a faggoty looking piece of academia


11 posted on 03/09/2020 10:33:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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If I shoot a corpse, am I a murderer?

Obama would say yes. He would be a corpse-man.

12 posted on 03/09/2020 10:35:47 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The author is a mental midget, lacking all logic and commonsense. You may only impeach a sitting president. If not, we could go back and impeach that bastard Woodrow Wilson or the messiah Hussein.


13 posted on 03/09/2020 10:36:38 AM PDT by RubinBoomer (PA for Trump 2020)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What an asinine article. Were Articles of Impeachment forwarded to the Senate? No.

Therefore Nixon was not impeached.

14 posted on 03/09/2020 10:42:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can you impeach someone who is not there?

Crazy stuff.


15 posted on 03/09/2020 10:43:43 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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The press and the Liberals, but I repeat myself, had and still have antipathy for Richard Nixon that may not have equaled what they have for Donald Trump but it was certainly close, and it hasn’t diminished


16 posted on 03/09/2020 10:46:15 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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Nixon was not impeached.

quote from the article.

Nuf sed. The rest is Twist and Shout


17 posted on 03/09/2020 10:48:26 AM PDT by stuckincali
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To quote a well known old hag “At this point, what difference does it make?”


18 posted on 03/09/2020 10:49:55 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
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Harold Pease, Ph.D.....

Piled high and deeper....


19 posted on 03/09/2020 10:50:59 AM PDT by Nuke From Orbit
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You either are, or you aren’t... So this if full blown BS. Nixon was ‘NOT’ impeached.


20 posted on 03/09/2020 10:53:10 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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