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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".
Scott and Rhodes were the Republican leaders in the Senate and House, respectively; Goldwater was brought along as an elder statesman. The three lawmakers told Nixon that his support in Congress had all but disappeared. Rhodes told Nixon that he would face certain impeachment when the articles came up for vote in the full House.
July 18, 1973: Nixon orders White House taping systems disconnected. July 23, 1973: Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapes to the Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor. Vice President replaced: October 10, 1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States due to corruption while he was the governor of Maryland.
Nixon's presidency succumbed to mounting pressure resulting from the Watergate scandal and its cover-up. Faced with almost certain impeachment and conviction, Nixon resigned. [citation needed] In his posthumously published memoirs, Bork said Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court following Bork's role in firing Cox.
Pete McCloskey, a veteran who wanted U.S. troops out of Vietnam, was the first congressman to urge consideration of Nixon's impeachment on the House floor. Pete McCloskey, antiwar candidate who ...
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.
January 4 – President Nixon announces he will not turn over hundreds of tapes and documents requested by the Senate Watergate committee. [3] January 5 – Bernard Barker says he was told of the White House plumber unit having telephone and radio communication tapes that proved the Soviet embassy had access to the Pentagon Papers. [4]
Nixon might not have visited Communist China in 1972 -- and Communist China might not have existed at all -- if not for the publication of The Communist Manifesto on Feb. 21, 1848.