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To: Spheres who wrote (118029)6/3/2005 11:49:44 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793707
 
I'm not suggesting anything. I have no idea what Richard Nixon intended to imply or admit by resigning the Presidency.

I'm stating fact (as was Cobalt)

Nixon was not impeached.

He resigned because he faced certain impeachment, conviction and removal from office.

Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon for crimes committed in office. It was a preemptive pardon and avoided putting the country through a criminal investigation of the former president.

You don't seem to have an understanding of the history of what took place. Take some time and educate yourself if you want to try to carry on a discussion of events that took place over 30 years ago.



To: Spheres who wrote (118029)6/4/2005 1:14:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793707
 
Message 21385822
In regard to Mr. Smithee's answer, let me add that the REPUBLICAN leaders of the Senate (including "Mr. Republican" of his day, Barry Goldwater) went to the WH after the House impeachment vote and told Nixon that if he did not resign, he faced CERTAIN conviction by the Senate.

As others have said, I suggest you study the history of the period.


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