Of summer, kind of a rough time for him. The House Judiciary Committee was holding impeachment hearings into the president s conduct in the watergate scandal. It was widely expected that the committee would approve articles of impeachment and send them to the full house. And by the end of that month, they would do just that. The white house was anxiously awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court on whether it would have to hand over tapes of Richard Nixons secretly recorded conversations to the were you a were you a gait special prosecutor, leon jaworski. That would also come down at the end of july. For all those reasons in midjuly, 1974, Richard Nixon was less than a month away from resigning the presidency. Though of course no one at the time knew that. Even though all this was going on or more likely because all of this was going on, president nixon went on vacation. He boarded his specially branded air force one, the spirit of 76 and headed to california to leave the swamps of wash
The white house was anxiously awaiting the ruling from the Supreme Court of whether it would have to hand over tapes of Richard Nixons secretly recorded conversations. That order would also come down by the end of that month, the end of july. For all those reasons in midjuly 1974 Richard Nixon was less than a month away from resigning the presidency. Though of course no one at the time knew that. Even though all this was going on or more likely because all of this was going on, president nixon went on vacation. He boarded his specially branded air force one, the spirit of 76 and headed for california, time to leave the swamps of washington and take a little break. But sometimes you just cant escape the office because more bad news from washington overtook nixon before he even made it to the west coast. Good evening. John lickman has been found guilty of three counts of perjury and one count of conspiracy in the oldsberg breakin case. Formally his domestic adviser was returned by a jury
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