Word: impeachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress should impeach President Nixon. The United States will survive even if it doesn't, and the day-to-day business of government will go on, somehow. But the democratic spirit that once made this country the hope of the world will be dealt another in the series of blows that have reduced it to its present state of crisis...
...Impeach Nixon...
...damage the national security. The President is a visceral, instinctive patriot." Besides, anything that even looked like a sellout would crush his chances for political survival. The conservatives, most of them Southerners who are expected to provide his major support in a Senate trial if the House votes to impeach him, are also the ones who are most skeptical of Soviet motives and who will most carefully examine his packages from Moscow...
...what an intricate impeach is this!" -Comedy of Errors
...Democrats on the committee have advised party leaders that a Judiciary vote in favor of impeachment is now all but certain. "We've got enough to impeach the guy now," said one Democrat. "We're putting together a fail-proof case." TIME has learned that the committee staff has begun to prepare articles that will accuse the President both of offenses that are indictable in criminal practice and of broader violations that deal with a President's particular legal responsibilities. Each article will be accompanied by evidence of specific Nixon actions to support the charge...