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...would very much like to impeach you. Since we have no formal grounds (as yet), we ask you kindly to let us know what impeachable offenses you have committed and to send along all proofs thereof...
...rear of the crowd, protesters carried signs that read: IMPEACH AND IMPRISON. EXORCISE NIXON. Throughout Nixon's speech, hecklers were highly vocal. When he vowed that "no American will ever be denied health care because of lack of ability to pay," someone shouted: "Pay your taxes...
...IMPEACHMENT. Rarely has a word stirred such passions or borne such grave implications for the future governance of the U.S. And rarely has a word been given such a latitude of meaning. On the broad side, there is the interpretation offered in 1970 (and since qualified) by Vice President Gerald Ford when he was the leader among 110 Congressmen trying to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas: "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." On the narrow side, there is the argument that...
These are the poles, but if an impeachment is to have any validity, it must surely be based on a middle ground between them. This week the lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee are scheduled to issue their opinion on what offenses are impeachable. Precisely how the report is phrased may have a great deal to do with whether the House votes to impeach President Nixon. And though the point may be heatedly debated, if history and precedent are to be the guides, it is unlikely that the Judiciary Committee's lawyers will find that the President...
Congressmen are aware that, in the latest measurement by Louis Harris, they rate lower in public approval than the President himself. If impeachment is primarily a political act, the prospect can only distress those who worry about the low es tate of politics these days. Of course, low politics is undeniably present, with some adamantly for or against impeach ment for partisan reasons. But the majority of Representatives are now waiting for the framing of the charges by Attorneys John Doar and Albert Jenner, majority and minority counsel respectively, to the Judiciary Committee. Just as there are high crimes...