Articles of Impeachment Against Richard M. Nixon

[RestoreGore]

Even then our Congress on all sides of the aisle saw the moral imperative to protect this country before their parties. And my God, when you even compare these articles against Nixon to what the articles against Bush and Cheney WILL look like, it boggles my mind that Congress can sit and allow these criminals to continue to usurp power. This is not about Democratic or Republican, this is about preserving our Constitution and the balance of power to prevent the continuance of a royal presidency that has not only overreached the boundaries of constitutionality but the boundaries of human decency.

http://www.watergate.info/impeachment/impeachment-articles.shtml

excerpt:

Article 1

RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS.

ARTICLE 1

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 violation of his consitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:

On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the Re-election of the President committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.

The means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following:

making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;

withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;

approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counselling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings;

interfering or endeavouring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and Congressional Committees;

approving, condoning, and acquiescing in, the surreptitious payment of substantial sums of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses, potential witnesses or individuals who participated in such unlawful entry and other illegal activities;

endeavouring to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency, an agency of the United States;

disseminating information received from officers of the Department of Justice of the United States to subjects of investigations conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding and assisting such subjects in their attempts to avoid criminal liability;

making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States and personnel of the Committee for the Re-election of the President, and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct: or

endeavouring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony, or rewarding individuals for their silence or false testimony.

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

Adopted 27-11 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, at 7.07pm on Saturday, 27th July, 1974, in Room 2141 of the Rayburn Office Building, Washington D.C.


Listen to the roll call of the Judiciary Committee on the First Article of Impeachment
Listen to the Announcement of the Vote
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More at the link.

We stood up to this before and we can and must do it again. No "election" is worth sacrificing our country for.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Funny. I just posted the articles of Impeachment against Nixon on another thread! recommended!

[RestoreGore]

2. Great minds think alike

Thanks.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. lol! My pleasure! Nixon's Impeachable offenses makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout next to Shrub.

:hi:

[RestoreGore]

4. My friend actually said she'd take him over Bush now

I tend to agree with her and that's scary.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. If there was a choice? Without blinking, I select Nixon and yes, it's

frightening that I should say this 33 years later. BTW...July is such a lovely month for Impeachment!!!!

[uppityperson]

6. I went through Nixon and I'd defintely take him over mrbush

Nixon was a paranoid little man, but he did some good and was not interested in world domination like the current set is.

[RestoreGore]

8. I actually wrote to him about the environment when I was 12 years old

And he responded with a very informative letter about his father's farm, his dutch hertiage, working the land, and how proud he was that someone my age cared enough about the environment to write him. I think that was right about the same time the EPA came into being. So yes, he did do some good but was destroyed by his own demons.

[OneBlueSky]

7. what's scary is Bush's crimes are many orders of magnitude greater than Nixons . . .

and no one's doing anything to stop him . . . back then we had senators and members of Congress with real integrity, and a relatively free and independent press . . . today we have neither . . .

[RestoreGore]

9. So true. What happened?

This wasn't that long ago. I know the MSM is an accomplice in all of this, but even so polls show over 50% of Americans want Cheney impeached and 45% want Bush impeached. Is Congress that afraid of them? If so, maybe it's time we just sweep them clean too.