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===Richard Nixon (1974)===

===Richard Nixon (1974)===

Nixon came into office in 1968 burdened by a vendetta dating back to the imprisonment of [[New Deal]] golden boy [[Alger Hiss]] in 1948 and the [[Amerasia]] scandal involving a the arrest of a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter on [[espionage]] charges.

Nixon came into office in 1968 burdened by a vendetta dating back to the imprisonment of [[New Deal]] golden boy [[Alger Hiss]] in 1948 and the [[Amerasia]] scandal involving the arrest of a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter on [[espionage]] charges.

Until 1974, no impeachment proceedings that managed to pass the first stage, the Judiciary Committee, had occurred since the Johnson trial over a hundred years earlier. At the time, congressmen and their staffs were unfamiliar with the law and proceedings involved with impeachment, and needed to research the question. Most Americans thought of impeachment as something quaint and bizarre in the history books.

Until 1974, no impeachment proceedings that managed to pass the first stage, the Judiciary Committee, had occurred since the Johnson trial over a hundred years earlier. At the time, congressmen and their staffs were unfamiliar with the law and proceedings involved with impeachment, and needed to research the question. Most Americans thought of impeachment as something quaint and bizarre in the history books.