[prognostigaator]

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[ClearCase_guy]

1) Nixon had a long and distinguished career prior to becoming President.
2) Nixon's presidency was very successful.
3) Nixon did not authorize the break-in
4) Nixon showed loyalty to his staff and foolishly tried to cover-up their misdeeds.
5) Nixon did not commit any crimes
6) Nixon resigned, rather than drag-out what had become a tawdry scandal.

1) Clinton was a nobody, with a trail of scandals behind him prior to becoming president.
2) Clinton's presidency weakened our standing in the world.
3) Clinton actively participated in criminal activities (suborning perjury, etc.)
4) Clinton never showed loyalty to anyone.
5) Clinton admitted wrong-doing, and lost his license to practice law.
6) Clinton stayed in office and is the only US president to ever be impeached.

[Peter Libra]

"I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning".

Richard Milhouse Nixon.

[TBP]

Interesting.

[William Tell]

I seem to recall that a grand jury named Nixon as an "un-indicted co-conspirator". The conspiracy in question was probably obstruction of justice, probably by means of making payments to convicted criminals to buy their silence with regard to crimes of higher-ups.

In another thread it was claimed that Deep Throat was not necessary to the unraveling of the Watergate conspiracy because one of the original burglars, unhappy with lack of payments, wrote a letter to a judge. Within days of the burglary Nixon is taped in the Oval Office claiming that a million dollars could be raised for such payments.

In a separate matter, Nixon was, I believe, charged in the articles of impeachment (voted out of committee) with using a forged document to establish the date of a contribution that resulted in a great tax advantage to which he would otherwise not be entitled.

The historical revisionists are hard at work.

[Tallguy]

Let me get this straight:

Clinton was 'impeachable', but not 'convictable'.
Nixon was a 'criminal', but not 'impeachable'?

Since when does impeachment (indictment for 'high crimes and misdemeanors') mean anything more than what a majority of the House says it means?