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  1. ५ तासांपूर्वी

    First, the % supporting impeachment today is about the same as public support for removing Nixon in March 1974, just few months before he resigned. House Judiciary impeachment hearings were well underway. In June 1974, only 44 percent thought he should be removed./2

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  2. ९ तासांपूर्वी

    7/ Even still, according to Pew, a majority didn't favor removing Nixon, until just before he did so. It was at *that* point that GOP Members informed Nixon he no longer had the votes to survive. Keep this all in mind, as polls come out. Polling CAN change, with action.

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  3. ९ तासांपूर्वी

    3/ What Dems did know is that the smoke was thick around Nixon, and investigation and impeachment hearings may find the fire -- so it was their duty to pursue it. They had basically NO GOP support at the outset. The idea that they had a cooperative GOP for impeachment is a myth.

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  4. ९ तासांपूर्वी

    Fact is, no one knows what will happen to impeachment numbers in polls, if Congress begins inquiry hearings. It is all guessing! But, it was the same in 1973, when polling said, after the Saturday Night Massacre, only 37 percent favored removal of Nixon. A THREAD

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  5. ९ तासांपूर्वी

    Another reason to despise Nixon besides the 1971 “Nixon Shock”

  6. १० तासांपूर्वी
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    It was an article of impeachment for Nixon!

  7. १० तासांपूर्वी

    In March 1974, 43 percent favored the impeachment of Nixon. This was two months before impeachment hearings began. So it was not yet a majority proposition.

  8. १० तासांपूर्वी

    "Except for Ron Ziegler, who lied for... Nixon, I've never seen anything like this with Sarah Sanders," Donaldson said. “... Ziegler lied about one thing … Sarah Sanders simply lies about everything."

  9. १२ तासांपूर्वी

    Average presidential approval ratings through this point in term via ABC/Post and Gallup polling: Kennedy 73% W Bush 71% HW Bush 70% Johnson 69% Eisenhower 67% Nixon 58% Truman 56% Obama 55% Reagan 55% Carter 52% Clinton 51% Ford 47% Trump 38%

  10. १२ तासांपूर्वी

    “The Supreme Court, in United States v. Nixon, ruled that while a claim of executive privilege was at times defensible, it was not absolute. Notably, it should not hold when the information sought is pertinent to the investigation of potential crimes.”

  11. १२ तासांपूर्वी

    Sam Ervin, head of the Watergate select committee, threatened to jail anyone who refused to appear. Of President Nixon’s privacy argument, Mr. Ervin said, “That is not executive privilege, that is executive poppycock.”

  12. १३ तासांपूर्वी

    (NOTE) The percentage of Americans who want Trump to be impeached (37%) is now the same as the percentage who wanted Nixon impeached just 6 months before he resigned. And we haven't even had serious public hearings yet about what Trump did. Don't assume he's escaping impeachment.

  13. १३ तासांपूर्वी

    Israel was attacked on Yom Kippur 1973, the holiest day of the year. European countries refused to assist Israel fearing an oil embargo. President Richard Nixon and US stepped in with massive operation "Nickel Grass" providing 570 US flights with 22,395 tons of supplies.

  14. १७ तासांपूर्वी

    £5 to everyone on coach today from Mr Kenwright to buy ourselves a drink at Crystal Palace!

  15. १७ तासांपूर्वी

    Refusal to Ivey Congressional subpoena is impeachable offense. It was 3rd Article of impeachment for Nixon Watergate

  16. २१ तासांपूर्वी

    "The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress, and he became the judge and jury," Graham said two decades ago.

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  17. २६ एप्रि

    GOP Richard Nixon courted Thurmond in 1968, adopting the "Southern Strategy," promising to turn race issues back over to the states. (Agnew dedicated GA's Stone Mountain in 1970.) Nixon claimed everyone who wanted a level playing field wanted a handout: esp. blacks and women. /23

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  18. २६ एप्रि

    "The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment."

  19. २६ एप्रि

    Nixon tried to spin it as a minor development, but it proved to be a turning point in the Watergate investigations, as Congress refused to back down and insisted on its right to conduct oversight.

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  20. २६ एप्रि

    ”The process of impeachment can also surface evidence.... The evidence that drove Nixon from office thus emerged as a consequence of the impeachment hearings; it did not spark them.”

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