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Gerald Ford is coming to Boston today and it is important for all liberals to turn out to welcome him. There are no elections immediately at hand in which the election of pro-impeachment congressmen are at stake. Liberals must take to the streets in an effort to both sway public opinion and congressional attitudes. Congress will only vote to impeach Nixon if it is convinced that the American people are totally against him. Thus it is important that there is as large a crowd as possible tonight demanding Ford to explain the Nixon administration's role in bugging, corruption...
Speaking on the possible impeachment of President Nixon, Smith said, "Until there is an upsurge of public opinion in favor of impeachment, I don't think Congress will impeach...
...meeting was touted as an "Impeach-In," but that topic was discussed only marginally by Arthur MacEwan, representatives of the New American Movement and author Kirkpatrick Sale...
Politics of that kind was very much involved in the nation's one previous attempt to impeach a President, and the sorry case against Andrew Johnson has given impeachment a bad name for a century since. The principal charge against Johnson was his defiance of an act of Congress that was later declared unconstitutional...
Clearly, a lot more misconduct than this can be adduced against Nixon, even with the wider latitude now given to Presidents. But it is only fair to note that dubious behavior by other recent Presidents did not lead to their impeachment. The New York City Bar argues that Congress should impeach Nixon "only if it would be prepared to take the same action against any President who engaged in comparable conduct in similar circumstances." The issue is not how good a President Nixon has been, or how popular he is, or whether he has had foreign policy successes or economic...