Clinton quotes re: Watergate from 8/19 Drudge Report
CLINTON: RESIGNATION!
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It was another time. Another place. But the same man.
"No question that an admission of making false statements to government
officials and interfering with the FBI is an impeachable offense." -- Bill
Clinton, ARKANSAS GAZETTE, August 8, 1974, page 7-A.
That quote is just one of dozens the DRUDGE REPORT has now obtained --
quotes that show Bill Clinton, in his own words, warning about the dangers
of leaving a man, who has lied, in the position of President of the United
States.
Bill Clinton was running for a seat in the United States Congress. [The 3rd
Congressional District, Arkansas.] In the early weeks of August that year,
President Nixon was going down in flames from events surrounding the
Watergate scandal. At that time, Nixon was refusing to respond to pressure
from the Hill demanding his resignation.
That summer Clinton was running for the seat held by Rep. John Paul
Hammerschmidt [R] -- a Nixon loyalist who was publicly supporting the
president and telling him to stay in office.
"REPRESENTATIVE IS 'OUT OF STEP,' CLINTON CHARGES" was the headline in the
newspaper on August 8, 1974.
In the wake of President Nixon's admission that summer that he had lied
about his role in Watergate, Clinton, then a law professor at the University
of Arkansas, said:
"I think it is plain that the president should resign and spare the country
the agony of impeachment and removal proceedings."
"I think the country could be spared a lot of agony... if he'd go on and
resign," Bill Clinton declared.
The ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, two days earlier -- August 6, 1974, page 10-A --
quoted Bill Clinton again talking about the need for Nixon to leave office:
"Bill Clinton, Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District,
said, "There is nothing left to say. There's no point putting this country
through an impeachment since [Nixon] isn't making any pretense of innocence
now... This country has suffered so long." |
