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...trash each other and end up making the institution look bad. That's why Congress's approval ratings are so low." - on the pitfalls of Congressional squabbling, FOX News...
...First elected to Congress in 2000 after defeating incumbent Matthew Martinez during a bitterly fought primary campaign. On election night, Martinez blasted his rival as "obnoxious" and soon afterward switched to the Republican party...
...federal government ran fairly impeachment-free for the next century or so - a corrupt judge here, a kickback-receiving Secretary of War there - until the epochal undoing of President Richard Nixon, who avoided the indignity of being called to account for the Watergate conspiracy by resigning before Congress had a chance to impeach him. Then, in 1998, came President Bill Clinton, with the Blue Dress and the cigars and the statement, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...
...Watergate scandal, (named after the office building which Republican operatives seeking information to damage Democrats burglarized at the direction of Richard Nixon's White House staff), ended in the only resignation of a President in American history. Although it was ultimately the power of the courts and of the Congress that forced Richard Nixon from office in the middle of his second term, it was the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein that first stymied the efforts of the President's men to cover up the White House involvement in the crime. (See a photo essay on the saga of Mark...
...more pressure on their Washington bureaus to produce meaningful scoops not just about the origins of the break-in but also the details of Nixon's attempt to frustrate the investigations. When it was clear that Nixon aide John Dean was going to give testimony damaging to Nixon before Congress, unseemly competition broke out for the first exclusive interview with Dean (Newsweek won by offering Dean cover display). (See TIME's covers on Watergate...