Word: nixon
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...Richard Nixon: One cannot turn on the television or radio without hearing comparisons made between "Monicagate" and Watergate. Just how short is the American public's memory? Although technically Nixon faced impeachment for obstruction of justice, that was a technicality--like taking down Al Capone on charges of tax evasion. One has to look at the nature of Nixon's obstruction: the use of the FBI, the CIA and hush money payments to cover up charges of breaking and entering, burglary, forgery, illegal wiretapping and electronic surveillance, conspiracy, illegal use of the IRS to investigate opponents and destruction of evidence...
Clinton's "obstruction of justice"? He lied about an extramarital affair between two consenting adults. Let's drop the ridiculous comparison to Nixon...
...next few days, the debate over the Lewinsky mess will narrow to this difficult question: Did Clinton behave so badly that he abused the power of his office? History offers little guidance, but one of the most recent impeachments doesn't bode well for him: U.S. District Judge Walter Nixon of Mississippi was impeached and removed in 1989. He had allegedly accepted a bribe, but that's not what got him impeached. Lying to the grand jury...
...record in office. But when Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala suggested that "surely your personal behavior is as important as your policies," his face went red, and he slapped her down hard. "If you were judging on personal behavior and not policies," he snapped, "then Richard Nixon should have been elected in 1960, not John Kennedy." The room went silent. "It was clear that this guy did not want to hear any criticism," said an official familiar with the meeting...
There is no guidance on the books about what constitutes actual grounds for impeachment: Nixon resigned before a Senate trial unfolded. But at the time, a third-year law student named John Whitehead interviewed a congressional candidate on the subject: "I think the definition should include any criminal acts, plus a willful failure of the President to fulfill his duty to uphold and execute the laws of the United States," the candidate replied. "The third factor that I think constitutes an impeachable offense would be willful, reckless behavior in office, just totally incompetent conduct in the office and the disregard...