On this day in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommends that America’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and removed from office. The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be collectively known as Watergate.
The Watergate scandal first came to light following a break-in on June 17, 1972, at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters in the Watergate apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C. A group of men linked to the White House were later arrested and charged with the crime. Nixon denied any involvement with the break-in, but several of his staff members were eventually implicated in an illegal cover-up and forced to resign. Subsequent government investigations revealed “dirty tricks” political campaigning by the Committee to Re-Elect the President, along with a White House “enemies list.”
In July 1973, one of Nixon’s former staff members revealed the existence of secretly taped conversations between the president and his aides. Nixon initially refused to release the tapes, on grounds of executive privilege and national security, but a judge later ordered the president to turn them over. The White House provided some but not all of the tapes, including one from which a portion of the conversation appeared to have been erased.
In May 1974, the House Judiciary Committee began formal impeachment hearings against Nixon. On July 27 of that year, the first article of impeachment against the president was passed. Two more articles, for abuse of power and contempt of Congress, wereapproved on July 29 and 30.On August 5,Nixon complied witha U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring thathe provide transcripts of the missing tapes, and the new evidence clearly implicated him in a cover up of the Watergate break-in.
On August 8, Nixon announced his resignation, becoming the first president in U.S. history to voluntarily leave office. After departing the White House on August 9,Nixon was succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford, who, in a controversial move, pardoned Nixon on September 8, 1974, making it impossible for the former president to be prosecuted for any crimes he might have committed while in office. Only two other presidents in U.S. historyhave beenimpeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.
The mainstream Watergate narrative (like this one from History.com) is a crock of steaming bovine excrement.
http://mileswmathis.com/watergate.pdf
This was one of the most significant events, in its entirety, in human history. It taught the political class the need to create “plausible deniability” when doing vile and corrupt things for money to win elections. A pair of young, hopeful politicos watched, took notes and headed to Arkansas. One of them, a young lawyer assigned to staff, had already been reprimanded for fraudulent statements of some kind.
Now, instead of “I’m innocent!” being proclaimed, the standard answer is “I’ve been framed!”
Would someone please make Hillary go away?
I am Maggie out in Podunk, Nowhere a few miles outside the suburbs of the sticks. My goats and I approve this message.
That is little Stuckenheimer at the feed bucket. He was rejected at birth and bottle fed. I’ve named him Stuckenheimer because he is always putting his head in openings a bit too small. Oh, because his testicles were undescended is why she rejected him. They appear to be intact and settled into place now.
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Maggie’s farm lookin’ good.
I really do love having goats. I haven’t started milking Mary Bess yet because Simon is very jealous. He tried to gore me and I had to stop him with a front snap kick to his head. He was very impressed. It is a good thing I took TKD with my son fifteen years ago. I was a green belt… master of the front snap kick!
As soon as I get the milking pen added, I will update you all on the progress with goat milking. I’ve found an Amish village within reasonable distance, so am throwing on a modest set of clothes and head there tomorrow to talk to a guy at the open air market about buying another nanny goat.
I still have the rabbits and there’s a litter that is just about right for the stewpot, but I promised a young lady I wouldn’t eat her bunny and she hasn’t picked it out yet. So, I have a garden rabbit, a goat pen rabbit and a front flower bed rabbit working hard to fertilize their assigned areas. I finally caught Pipper who was living under my front walk for a time, but Pipper died the first night in the dog crate. I suspected snakebite (or Simon since I put Pipper in with Goat Pen rabbit. Pipper was supposed to be Julia’s rabbit. Now that he freaking died I told her she could pick another. So, I have rabbits every freaking place there is a place to hide a cage in the shade.
Make some goat milk soap, that is all we use here at home and at the doomstead.
Knee not looking so good,Maggie.
Them’s my leggings I wear to keep the ticks from crawling up my hinder, otc. I’ve traded vanity concerning thigh gap to practicality when it comes to parasitic insects carrying disease.