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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idiot.
You can’t impeach a private citizen.
If he had already resigned then such a vote is meaningless.
Oops, i accidentally slipped into a alternate Universe.
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.
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.
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.
Those House votes carry about as much weight,legally and historically,as the very same votes against me would have carried.
If I shoot a corpse, am I a murderer?
What a faggoty looking piece of academia
Obama would say yes. He would be a corpse-man.
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.
Therefore Nixon was not impeached.
Can you impeach someone who is not there?
Crazy stuff.
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
Nixon was not impeached.
quote from the article.
Nuf sed. The rest is Twist and Shout
To quote a well known old hag “At this point, what difference does it make?”
Harold Pease, Ph.D.....
Piled high and deeper....
You either are, or you aren’t... So this if full blown BS. Nixon was ‘NOT’ impeached.
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