Reply #22: In fairness, Nixon inherited the Vietnam War from LBJ

[Jack Rabbit]

He took four years to reach a peace accord that he could have had the day he took office.

Nevertheless, Nixon was not impeached for Vietnam. The House Judiciary Committee had before it a proposed article of impeachment based on the secret bombing of Cambodia, but rejected it. We can argue all day whether it was a valid article or not, but they had already approved three articles of impeachment charging Nixon with obstruction of justice arising out of the cover up of the Watergate burglary, abuse of power and contempt of Congress; these would be sufficient to bring Nixon down.

This is the text of the rejected article of impeachment:

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, on and subsequent to March 17, 1969, authorized, ordered, and ratified the concealment from the Congress of false and misleading statements concerning the existence, scope and nature of American bombing operations in Cambodia in derogation of the power of the Congress to declare war, to make appropriations and to raise and support armies, and by such conduct warrants impeachment and trial and removal from office.

Personally, I think it is a valid reason to impeach. However, it might have been difficult to make the case before a "jury" (the Senate) that would include partisan defenders of Nixon and the war; and, as mentioned, they already had a good case against him anyway.