To: frnewsjunkie
A President was impeached because of 18 min of mistakenly erased tapes. Nixon was sent packing. Nixon was never impeached.
811 posted on
07/07/2016 10:19:26 AM PDT by
TheCipher
(Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
To: TheCipher
Nixon was sent packing. Nixon was never impeached.
Nixon, whatever his other flaws, had the decency to RESIGN.
We will never see that again IMHO. Slick Willie has taught them all that if you double-down and attack your accusers, you can ride out just about anything.
To: TheCipher
Nixon was never impeached Technically true, but Nixon was merely hours from being impeached. He resigned before the full House took a vote to impeach. The House Judiciary Committee had already approved articles of impeachment. The Republicans basically acquiesced because they knew Ford was in place to succeed.
It is interesting the Democrats didn't follow the same logic in 1997 and let Gore become President. Gore would have had loads of incumbent President advantages for the 2000 election. Speaks to the raw power of the Clintons.
910 posted on
07/07/2016 11:03:26 AM PDT by
tellw
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