The Bangor native remained true to himself and the Constitution by voting to impeach President Richard Nixon.

If she were alive, Texan Barbara Jordan would heartily endorse the celebration of Juneteenth, the federal holiday signed into ...

The revelation of the list’s existence during the Watergate hearings of 1973 provoked ... less than two weeks before Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment and conviction.

Securing bipartisan support, however — seven out of 17 Republican committee members voted for Nixon’s impeachment — required weeks of closed-door hearings to lay the fully documented facts ...

After Nixon, the presidents stamped with impeachment – Bill Clinton and ... In contrast, the Watergate hearings saw members of Congress place principle over party. Republican and Democratic ...

8. Nixon had resigned on Aug. 9 to avoid certain impeachment and removal from office for his cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other misdeeds. As a member of the subcommittee hearing Ford’s ...

Throughout the hearing, the White House continued ... Trump — and none ever convicted by Congress. Richard M. Nixon thwarted his impeachment by resigning from office after learning that even ...

Nixon, to be sure, was never impeached, but the threat of impeachment hearings spurred the Republican party elite to abandon Nixon and force his resignation. Trump has good reason to fear that the ...

But before the full House could complete its hearings and vote on impeachment, Nixon announced his resignation on Aug. 8, 1974 — one day after Republican leaders in Congress told him that his ...