re: Conservative Think Tank: Trump ‘Obstructed Justice’ When He Fired Comey

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Yeah, so the republicans who told Nixon they would remove him knew the answer to that question.

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learning all your political history in the movies is fun! isn't son.

that's not what happened even a little bit.

In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Watergate figure John W. Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign." A Los Angeles Times headline over Rhodes' 2003 obituary recalled that the longtime representative from Mesa "helped persuade Nixon to resign." A 2007 Politico column recalled the episode as "When the GOP Torpedoed Nixon."

Actually, Goldwater, Rhodes and Scott did not try to persuade or urge Nixon to resign in their meeting in his "working office" in the Old Executive Office Building. They just confirmed to the doomed president the extent to which his support on the Hill had evaporated.

"My dad kind of bristled at the idea that he and Goldwater talked Nixon into doing what he did," son Tom Rhodes told The Arizona Republic. "I don't think any one of the three of them took any pride in that moment."

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what was obvious at that time had you been alive, was that nixon would be impeached in the house. of course he would have the democrats had a 150 seat majority. impeachment requires but a single vote majority in the house it remains an open question to this day whether or not the democrats could have picked up the 11 republican votes needed to convict in the senate.

at the time it was thought that just impeachment in the house would have been an irreparable blemish on the party. years later having seen that it had no effect on clinton's presidency or his party led howard baker to remark they should have counseled nixon to stay and fight.

now why don't you run along junior and let the grown ups talk politics!