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The impeachment process against Richard Nixon was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on October 30, 1973, during the course of the Watergate scandal, when multiple resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon were introduced immediately following the series of high-level resignations and firings widely called the "Saturday Night Massacre".
First day of The Judiciary Committee's formal impeachment hearings against President Nixon, May 9, 1974. As the Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on the first article of impeachment in July 1974, Rodino said: "We have deliberated. We have been patient. We have been fair.
Before the election, the House Banking Committee chaired by Wright Patman (D-TX) held hearings on Watergate but were stymied by Nixon Administration officials. A vote to issue subpoenas in October 1972 failed when several Democratic members joined all Republican members of the committee to oppose the vote. [ 4 ]
With Nixon's resignation, Congress dropped its impeachment proceedings. Criminal prosecution was still a possibility at the federal level. [ 57 ] Nixon was succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford as president, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pardon of Nixon, immunizing him from prosecution for any crimes he had ...
It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1975, during the last 18 months of Richard Nixon's presidency, and the first 6 months of Gerald Ford's. This Congress was the first (and, to date, only) Congress with more than two Senate presidents (in this case, three).
There is no evidence, much less any established public consensus, that impeachment of President Joe Biden is warranted or desirable, writes constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt.
Ford pardoned Nixon in 1974 after the latter resigned during the Watergate scandal, in which evidence emerged that he was indeed involved in shielding allies who broke into a Democratic office in ...
The Nixon pardon of Sept. 8, 1974, ... Over the years, however, Ford began hearing praise for the pardon. In 2001, he received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.