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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nixon fired the people investigating him in 1973. He was kicked out in 1974.

We are on track.[/quote]

Nixon wasn't "kicked out."  He resigned before being impeached. [b]Had he not resigned, it is highly doubtful that he would have been convicted. Several Republicans would have had to defect. [/b]I never supported Nixon, but to his credit, he never wanted to put the country into a crisis. When JFK won the election, it was because so many dead people voted in Illinois. Nixon could have contested the result but decided that it would be too traumatic for the country. Similarly, a Senate trial would have been traumatic for the nation. Presidents can be impeached, but they are very difficult to convict. Two presidents have been impeached, neither was convicted, and Nixon could not have been convicted without the support of several Republican senators. [/quote]

More than "several Republicans" were absolutely going to defect, notably Barry Goldwater. That's why he resigned. [/quote]

From Wikipedia:
[i]"On the night of August 7, 1974, Senators Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott and Representative John Rhodes met with Nixon in the Oval Office and told him 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. Goldwater and Scott told the president that there were not only enough votes in the Senate to convict him, but that no more than 15 Senators were willing to vote for acquittal – far fewer than the 34 he needed to avoid removal from office.[100]

With impeachment by the House and removal by the Senate all but certain, on the night of August 8, 1974, Nixon took to the airwaves and delivered an address in which he announced his resignation. During the day on August 9, 1974, Nixon became the first, and so far only, president to resign.[101]"[/i][/quote]

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