One way to understand the constitutional grant of powers to the president is that the president can do *literally* whatever he wants as long as he can hold onto the votes of 35 senators in his party. Which is...kinda grim when you think about it!
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True enough. Now we’ve gotof n of just two so far. And it does seem as if quite a few Republicans were prepared to impeach and ultimately convict Nixon, but we didn’t get that far so we will never know for sure.
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They told Nixon they had the votes. We'll never know how many they had. But the guys who won POTUS noms after that were Ford, Reagan, Bush & Dole - not Howard Baker or Goldwater.
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Romney is in an elite class.
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