BLOG POST 25 Feb 2017 - 01

History of Presidential Impeachment actions

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_impeachment

Richard Milhouse Nixon –

After Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, which led to the immediate departures of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus in what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre" of October 20, 1973,^[14] however, momentum towards impeachment grew rapidly. (In the view of Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan, who had been privy to Nixon's thinking, the president had known this would be the likely outcome of dismissing Cox.^[15]) On October 23, 1973, a landslide of resolutions calling for impeachment, impeachment investigations, and appointment of a special prosecutor were introduced against Nixon.^[16] The introduction of these resolutions continued for several days, but the Judiciary Committee was reluctant to start a formal investigation, especially with the Vice Presidency vacant after the resignation amid scandal of Spiro Agnew on October 10, 1973.

                Nixon, knowing that impeachment and removal from office was certain - on the day of August 9, 1974, Nixon became the first, and so far only, president to resign.

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William Jefferson Clinton –

                http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/articles122098.htm

                Perjury to grand jury in case of Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky affair

                Clinton was not impeached.

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Donald John Trump –

                DJT famously tweeted – 6/4/2014 at 3:23 AM, “Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?” Very prophetic.