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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (70208)	11/18/2005 4:31:08 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You are clueless. Impeachment never happened for Nixon, precisely for the reason you note, i.e. he quit instead. NO impeachment of Nixon was ever approved by the House of Representatives. Re: "Myself, Websters and most people agree that this is impeachment." No, they don't. In fact, experts recognize that Nixon was "almost" impeached. While the Judiciary committee brought articles of impeachment, the full house never voted to approve them. Until that could have happened, and Nixon knew it would have when the evidence on the missing tapes came to light, there was no impeachment, just plans to bring impeachment up for a full House vote. The full House voted to impeach Clinton, and it went to trial in the Senate. That the House of Representatives was considering the impeachment of Clinton was NOT considered actual impeachment until the full House approved the articles of impeachment. Had they voted the articles of impeachment down, Clinton would not now be considered to have been impeached (certainly not by you, lol). Again, the full house NEVER voted to impeach Nixon, and until the full House approves the articles of impeachment, thus sending the case to trial in the Senate, no impeachment has been approved by Congress. No such full House vote which WOULD have meant an impeachment happened, and which WOULD have caused a Senate trail to be scheduled, ever happened in Nixon's case. This has nothing to do with apology, LOL. It's just the truth. Nixon EVADED the vote on whether or not to impeach him by quitting. He was therefore not impeached. Dan B.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (70208)	11/21/2005 7:08:36 AM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The Library of Congress recognized the impeachments of the only two Presidents impeached. Johnson and Clinton. Nixon was not impeached as we all know. Clinton, Bill. Answer of President William Jefferson Clinton to the Articles of Impeachment. Jan. 11, 1999 <http://www7.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/11/clinton.response/>. Johnson, Andrew. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: The Complete Record of the Impeachment in the House of Representatives, the Preliminary Proceedings in the Senate, the Articles of Impeachment, and the Full Proceedings in the Court of Impeachment of the Senate of the United States, by the United States Congress. New York: Dover Publications [1974]. 289 p. Reprint of the 1868 ed. published by T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia, under title: The great impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson. ISBN: 0486230937. LCCN: 74080726. KF5076.J6 A2 1974 Nixon v. U.S., 744 F.Supp. 9 (D.D.C. 1990). KF120 .F42 RR Nixon v. U.S., 290 U.S. App. D.C. 420, 938 F.2d 239 (D.C. Cir. 1991), reh’g denied 1991 U.S. APP. LEXIS 25391 (D.C. Cir. 1991), cert. granted 502 U.S. 1090 (1992). KF105 .F432 RR Nixon v. U.S., 506 U.S. 224, 113 S.Ct. 732, 122 L.Ed.2d 1 (1993). URL <http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-740.ZS.html>. RR memory.loc.gov