April 19, 2019
What a Watergate Expert Thinks of the Mueller Report
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Are there any other ways in which you think our modern experience with impeachment will affect how this process plays out?
Well, the situations are different. When Nixon was President there was
a Democratic House and Senate, and so the majority was at least
willing to hold the President accountable, though rather reluctant to
challenge a president who was so popular and also rather reluctant to
engage in impeachment proceedings, simply because they are very
divisive. One of the commonalities between the 1970s and now is that
about 40% of the country, no matter what the evidence was, thought
Nixon was being railroaded. Even when the tapes came out, it didn't
matter how many people went to prison, Nixon still had the support of
the Republican base. And during the period of Clinton's impeachment proceedings, the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate, so
again you have the President and Congress being of opposite parties.
https://time.com/5574419/mueller-report-nixon-history/
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