there should be no congressional record of the impeachment of richard nixon. at this point nixon had already resigned his office and was no longer president. i want no record of this, i m voting no. the third and final vote along with those guys was a republican from indiana named earl landgrebe, one of the great names in american politics ever. earl landgrebe was a guy in general i think enjoyed being contrary, being kind of the poison ivy patch at the picnic. for example, earl landgrebe once voted against cancer research. he was the only vote in the entire congress against this cancer research appropriation. because he argued against the cancer research he argued what s the point? he literally argued that there was no point in spending any money to try to cure cancer because there was no point in curing cancer. because even if we cured cancer, that would only change, quote,
speech? he should go on 60 minutes with hunter biden by his side and take every question. what do you think of a checker speech? could it be effective? it could be quite effective. i think he has to deal with it more than he did. my apologies for those of you who didn t know checker speech. sometimes we make these references, but at that point nixon accused of something and he uses television for the very first time to become a sympathetic figure. i think joe biden could completely benefit from this, but i think they re really going to have to want to explain high hundredor biden is different from don, jr. and what president trump was doing with his children. there was a poll out pbs news and npr did, 58% of people said this would have no factor on what they did. if you re a democratic, don t you worry what they ll drop in
wackos out there that want to punch you in the face if you say you like trump. i think we should go through with the process, whether it messes with the outcome of the 2020 election, i think that s its own kind of ball of wax. i think we re divided anyway, right? so moving forward with potential impeachment procedures, i think, is not going to really do anything different. give us your sort of, that historical view. what s happening? well, you know, when i look back at the three impeachments i have lived through, i really only was there for nixon and clinton, but i feel like i was there with andrew johnson, the critical thing is how is history going to regard what the house is doing right now? will it be like nixon, that the consensus will be afterwards that they had to do this because he had to be held accountable? and in the end, republicans came along, and in the end, ford says our long national nightmare is over, or like clinton, regarded as a partisan endeavor that boosts
45 years ago today, president nixon resigning. and of course he resigned because he had lost in the courts in his effort to keep secret both from congress and from the public the evidence that would ultimately show him obstructing justice in the watergate scandal. not only his complicity in the watergate and related crimes, but more importantly his key role in orchestrating the cover-up of those crimes and his efforts to stymie or or elude or divert the investigation into those crimes. the courts breaking the seal on that evidence against nixon. that in turn broke the seal on what had been a fairly impenetrable defense around president nixon in the congress formed by members of his own republican party. when the courts let the evidence against nixon be heard, the congress heard it just like the public did. the republican wall in congress that had been defending and protecting nixon for so long, that finally started to crumble, and at that point nixon knew that he wasn t going to ha
president nixon resigning. and of course he resigned because he had lost in the courts in his effort to keep secret both from congress and from the public the evidence that would ultimately show him obstructing justice in the watergate scandal. not only his complicity in the watergate and related crimes, but more importantly his key role in orchestrating the cover-up of those crimes and his efforts to stymie or or elude or divert the investigation into those crimes. the courts breaking the seal on that evidence against nixon. that in turn broke the seal on what had been a fairly impenetrable defense around president nixon in the congress formed by members of his own republican party. when the courts let the evidence against nixon be heard, the congress heard it just like the public did. the republican wall in congress that had been defending and protecting nixon for so long, that finally started to crumble, and at that point nixon knew that he wasn t going to have a