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On 2/19/2017 at 9:08 PM, Oh Shoot said:

Yeah, it's an x factor whether Nixon would resigned if both House and Senate hadn't been Dem controlled at the time, and hence almost certain to follow through with full impeachment process.

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The deciding factor for Nixon's decision was when Barry Goldwater told him that he (Goldwater) would vote for impeachment on several of the articles under consideration in the House.  Nixon knew that if he had lost Goldwater, the game was up ...

On 2/20/2017 at 3:11 AM, aldodds3 said:


I think just as important in Nixon's calculus was that the majority of House GOP committee members voted for impeachment. That made it impossible to blame the Democrats alone.


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Also true ...

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36 minutes ago, No_0ne said:

The deciding factor for Nixon's decision was when Barry Goldwater told him that he (Goldwater) would vote for impeachment on several of the articles under consideration in the House.  Nixon knew that if he had lost Goldwater, the game was up ...

Also true ...

I wonder if that would go the same way nowadays?  Seems like today he would just go on and be reelected like it never happened.

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6 hours ago, Omega said:

I wonder if that would go the same way nowadays?  Seems like today he would just go on and be reelected like it never happened.

Nope. Nixon was going to be impeached, and rightfully so, and the Senate was going to convict him.  This was ultimately why he resigned when he did ...

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