What kind of legislation passed DURING the Nixon impeachment trial?

[Poiuyt]

Didn't some major bills get passed during that time? I'm guessing that Congress can impeach and chew gum at the same time.

[mmonk]

1. I hear not.

[stevedeshazer]

2. There was no Nixon impeachment trial.

He was not impeached.

[Poiuyt]

4. OK then. Impeachment hearings

[Breeze54]

7. I posted the link. Click and read!!

Impeachment

http://watergate.info/impeachment/

Political investigations began in February 1973 when the Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee were sensational, including the evidence of John Dean, Nixon's former White House Counsel. The Committee also uncovered the existence of the secret White House tape recordings, sparking a major political and legal battle between the Congress and the President.

On February 6, 1974, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 803 by 410-4 to authorize the Judiciary Committee to consider impeachment proceedings against Nixon.

This is the text of HR803:

"RESOLVED, That the Committee on the Judiciary acting as a whole or by any subcommittee thereof appointed by the Chairman for the purposes hereof and in accordance with the Rules of the Committee, is authorized and directed to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America. The committee shall report to the House of Representatives such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other recommendations as it deems proper."

The work of this Committee was again the spotlight a quarter of a century later when Bill Clinton was impeached.

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommended Articles of Impeachment to the full House of Representatives, but Nixon resigned before the House voted on the Articles.

Hence Nixon was not impeached during the Watergate scandal. The only Presidents ever to have been impeached were Andrew Johnson (1867) and Bill Clinton (1998), both of whom were acquitted in their Senate trials.

* Members of the House Judiciary Committee 1974

* Impeachment Material Submitted To And Prepared By The House Judiciary Committee

* Articles of Impeachment Adopted by the House Judiciary Committee

* Analysis of the Impeachment Votes of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives

* Speech by Barbara Jordan (Democrat) on Impeachment

* Impeach Nixon! - all those years later!

Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon
http://watergate.info/

[Breeze54]

3. Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/impeach.html">A Short History of Impeachment

High crimes and misdemeanors

The One That Got Away

Of thirty-five attempts at impeachment, only nine have come to trial. Because it cripples Congress with a lengthy trial, impeachment is infrequent. Many officials, seeing the writing on the wall, resign rather than face the ignominy of a public trial.

The most famous of these cases is of course that of President Richard Nixon, a Republican. After five men hired by Nixon's reelection committee were caught burglarizing Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Complex on June 17, 1972, President Nixon's subsequent behavior—his cover-up of the burglary and refusal to turn over evidence—led the House Judiciary Committee to issue three articles of impeachment on July 30, 1974. The document also indicted Nixon for illegal wiretapping, misuse of the CIA, perjury, bribery, obstruction of justice, and other abuses of executive power. "In all of this," the Articles of Impeachment summarize, "Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." Impeachment appeared inevitable, and Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974. The Articles of Impeachment, which can be viewed at http://watergate.info/, leave no doubt that these charges qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors," justifying impeachment.


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But Pelosi says impeachment is off the table! :grr:

Nixon was a complete asshat but Bush is much worse!

[mmonk]

5. Yep. Just look at the volume of offenses

and testimony we have on bush compared to Nixon. Nixon looks like a boy scout in comparison.

[TahitiNut]

8. Nixon WAS a Boy Scout in comparison!

This country has NEVER seen a more crimnial adminstration. Ever.

[ben_meyers]

6. Nixon resigned when he was told

that there were enough votes to impeach him.

[onenote]

9. some significant legislation passed, but here's the difference

The Nixon impeachment process, from the outset, was not marked by the sharp, almost total partisan divide that impeachment would currently face in Congress. The Ervin Committee was authorized by a bi-partisan vote of 77-0 and the House Judiciary impeachment inquiry was backed by a vote of 410-4. Its hardly surprising that legislation continued to move under the circumstances (along with the fac that the Democrat majorities in both House were, in and of themselves, wider than today).

[LittleClarkie]

10. I've heard that the Conservatives in the party turned on Nixon

that he was too liberal for them. So they took the opportunity.

Conservatives I know now call him a "pussy".