Re: "I think that most people say that Nixon was impeached"
It wouldn't surprise me if most people in your life say that indeed, but they are wrong indeed. This isn't so in my circle of Nixon haters. They know better. I think you should be apologizing for your last asinine post. The definition is NOT about the accusation, it's about the Vote of the House of Representatives.
If you want to say that articles of impeachment from the Judiciary Committee constitute "impeachment," go right ahead. It's silly, but go right ahead.
"Impeachment requires a majority vote of the House."
"Two U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth chief executive, and William J. Clinton, the forty-second."
infoplease.com
That should do for you, but I doubt it.
The fact is that Nixon thought he had support enough to NEVER lose a House Vote on those articles of Impeachment, and thus NEVER be impeached, and NEVER have a Senate Trial scheduled, right up until a few days later when those tapes came out. THEN, he knew the vote would be to Impeach Him. THEN, he knew the impeachment vote would send him to trial. So he evaded both trial AND impeachment when he resigned.
I go the extra mile, don't I? Clinton WAS impeached by a vote of the full House of Representaves, and sent to trial. Hence the reference above. Clinton was NOT considered impeached by the media nor the public until the full House of Representatives voted to impeach him (the day it did was news). Nixon WAS NOT impeached by a vote of the House of Representatives and he isn't considered to have been impeached, per the link above among many, save by deep leftist propaganda soup eaters like you who misspeak right and left, understanding little correctly in the end.
Dan B. |
