Word: impeachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lewis said he fears that if Congress were to impeach Nixon within this year or the next, there would be a "backlash." He said that the same trauma which strikes the nation when a president dies in office would come with Nixon's impeachment...
...White House offensive was backfiring in its attempt to trigger precipitate and self-defeating action by the Judiciary Committee to impeach the President solely on grounds of contempt of Congress. Committee members were angry?not at each other or at their staff?but at what they considered the obviousness of the Nixon-St. Clair tactics. While they respect St. Clair's legal savvy, they think that he has ventured into essentially political maneuverings. At that game, they assume, they are far more adept and experienced than...
While about 300 demonstrators rallied on the green about 100 yards from the front of the Harvard Club, another 100 stood across the street from the club, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford" and "Gerald Ford: You can't hide. You committed genocide...
What can now be done by the people of the U.S. to clear up this intolerable mess? First the massive campaign to impeach and convict Nixon of high crimes and misdemeanors must be increased until he is forced to resign or driven from public office. Second, a commission of outstanding citizens should be appointed by the Congress which is to be elected in November 1974, to thoroughly investigate and expose the crimes committed by Nixon's four immediate predecessors...
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...