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Someone two weeks ago mailed all 100 U.S. Senators a four-page pamphlet that was written by the ultra-right-wing John Birch Society and demanded President Nixon's impeachment. The grounds for this action were unblinkingly harsh: Nixon's "deliberate treason" in the conduct of both foreign and domestic policy. Almost as bad, the diatribe went on, "Mr. Nixon has spent more money-and has spent it more wastefully-than any other President, monarch, dictator or ruler of any kind in all human history...
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...President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground...
...Rather asked, could the House perform its constitutional duties if the President, the person under investigation in the impeachment inquiry, was "allowed to limit its access to potential evidence"? Nixon answered circuitously. He contended that the House investigators were not abiding by the Constitution's grounds for impeachment: "Treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors." He added: "I am suggesting that the House follow the Constitution...
...only a matter of time before the Federal Government got around to a similar resuscitation. Last week the Senate passed, 54 to 33, a measure restoring the death penalty for certain federal crimes. If the bill passes in the House, which seems certain, capital punishment could be imposed for treason, espionage or assassination of the President, Vice President, a Justice of the Supreme Court, any federal law-enforcement officer or any foreign chief of state. A death sentence could also be ordered for murder committed in the process of an airplane hijacking, a kidnaping or an escape from the custody...