Reply #122: Sam Ervin's hearings weren't impeachment hearings

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Thanks for proving the point many of have been making. The Nixon impeachment effort didn't start with an attempt to impeach him. It started with a Senate Select Committee investigating the Watergate break-in and related matters. It wasn't an impeachment inquiry at all...indeed, having started in the Senate, it couldn't be. It was the revelation of certain matters during those hearings, along with incredibly stupid moves by Nixon (most notably the Saturday Night Massacre) that led to the House starting an impeachment inquiry.

The point is that investigations, independent of any proclaimed goal of impeachment, are the only way to build towards impeachment.