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United States v. Nixon , 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark decision [ 1 ] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court .
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For Nixon, president Gerald Ford ultimately granted him a pardon – something Mr Smith points to in his brief to the court as an example of the ruling applying to Mr Trump’s situation.
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.
Education Amendments of 1972; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
Impeachment: An American History is a 2018 book by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey A. Engel, published by Modern Library.Meacham, Naftali, and Baker describe the impeachments (or in the case of Nixon, unfinished impeachment proceedings) of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton, respectively.
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".
Nixon v. United States , 506 U.S. 224 (1993), was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that a question of whether the Senate had properly tried an impeachment was political in nature and could not be resolved in the courts if there was no applicable judicial standard.