He only needed to be found guilty of one article of impeachment. Richard nixon, seeing the writing on the wall, he was very gifted, he saw the writing on the wall and he decides to resign before he is actually thrown out of office. He announced his resignation august 8, 1974. He leaves office at noon on august 9, 1974, 40 years ago this august. Timothy naftali who served as director of the Richard Nixon Library Museum in california. Now the director of the library at new york university. Thank you for your perspective on the events 40 years ago. Up next more from the debate , before the House Judiciary Committee on july 20 9, 1974, including the vote on article two the abuse of power against Richard Nixon. Here on cspan 3 and American History tv. The gentleman from california recognized for five minutes. Article two. Which i suggest is an expression of our deep devotion to the constitution and to the first ten amendments. The bill of rights. Article two is our rededication to and reaff
Be reviewed. 24yearold matthew just finished asking the electoral board to accept his vote. He had to cast a provional b ballot because his name was missing. As a young citizen, its important. Reporter his vote would add one more vote to mark warners votes. Its how theyre shifting. The painstaking process of canvassing the results is under way. The intensity ramps up when a race is close. Already, errors have been discovered. Based on the numbers ive seen weve not seen anything that would make a dramatic change. There was one precincts that looked like a 900 vote shift and one precinct a 300 vote shift the other way, nothing in the thousands of vote totals that looks like it would have an impact on senator warners current lead. Reporter this long term official agreed that the current lead is too big for gillespie overcome. We wont see a flip of a race that has a 15,000 vote margin. Theres too many votes there. Reporter while warner declared victory last night, gillespie never conceded
House and tried and found guilty by the senate. And he only needed to be found guilty on one article of impeachment to be thrown out of office. Richmond nixon, seeing the writing on the wall, he was a very gifted, in many ways, a gifted odds maker in political games. He saw the writing on the wall and he decides to resign before he is actually thrown out of office. He announcing resignation on august 8th one 1974 and leaves office at noon on august 9th, 1974, 40 years ago this august. Timothy who served as the director in your california, now the director of library at new york university. Thank you for your perspective on the events of 40 years ago. And up next, more from the debate before the House Judiciary Committee on july 29th, 1974, including the vote on article ii, the abuse of power against Richard Nixon on cspan 3, american tv. The gentleman from california. Recognized for five minutes. I would like to speak about article ii which i suggest is an expression of our deep devoti
Nixon was seen as a Foreign Policy sage. When he died, all the president came out there to california to be at his too many or his bur l burial. September 7th, 1972, 10 32 a. M. Following the controversial shooting of candidate George Wallace whether they were candidates for the presidency or not were offered tem pouporary secret service protection. Youve got one u. S. Senator kennedy whose a secondary factor in the campaign. You give him secret Service Coverage throughout the campaign. He said, i understand. I dont like to give him something but at the same time if he gets shot its our fault. You understand what the problem is. If you the son of a gets shot theyll say he didnt furnish it. We buy his insurance. After the election he wont get a thing. If he gets shot, its too bad. Theres the tough thing. He cant stand ted kennedy. He trails kennedy around. He said i will get a secret service guy but i want him to be a spy for me. He even uses secret service guy not to use. After the ele
George herman is at capitol hill for the senate view on the question which now is being some sort ofher immunity might be offered to the president against prosecution for any wrongdoing in the white house during his administration. George . Betweenegal discussion mike kelly with some interest. Up here, i guess you would have to say it is not viewed so much as a legal question as it is as a political question. I think the members of the senate i talked to were more concerned with what they would call the particle political realities of the situation. Some of them feel, for example, that if there were a sense of a Congress Resolution that the president should be granted prosecutors,t especially federal prosecutors under president gerald ford most federal prosecutors would not prosecute, not because because of the practical politics of the situation. Some members of the senate see the question of immunity as part of what my colleague called pleabargaining. I do not know if you could call