Word: governability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been. Resignation might well insure rather than prevent continuing suspicion and bitterness in American politics. Mr. Nixon is as entitled to a day in court as any man; he is entitled to judgment on the merits of his case, not to an assumption that he looks too guilty to govern...
...There are a lot of rumors now about Nixon's mental health. Some people say that, faced with a serious threat of impeachment, he might just lock himself in the White House, declare martial law, and continue to govern, or do what passes for governing...
Richard Nixon and the nation have passed a tragic point of no return. It now seems likely that the President will have to give up his office: he has irredeemably lost his moral authority, the confidence of most of the country, and therefore his ability to govern effectively...
Having just revolted from an unimpeachable King, early Americans had passionate feelings about the subject of impeachment. They feared that an untouchable President would turn into a tyrant, yet worried that making him subject to impeachment would destroy his ability to govern. Said Virginia's Colonel George Mason at the Federal Convention: "No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?" South Carolina's Charles Pinckney countered that impeachment would enable...
...confidence of the American people in the ability of the government to govern has eroded at a progressively increasing rate. The failure of nearly one-half of America's qualified voters to turn up at the polls last November is indicative of a lack of faith in anyone's ability to govern properly...