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Impeachment process of Richard Nixon : ウィキペディア英語版 | Impeachment process of Richard Nixon During 1974, Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was in the process of being impeached by the United States House of Representatives on several charges related to the Watergate scandal. The House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against him and reported those articles to the House of Representatives. The impeachment resolutions were never considered by the full House, as the process was cut short by the resignation of Nixon from the presidency on August 9, 1974. It is widely believed that had Nixon not resigned, his impeachment by the House, and removal from office by a trial of the United States Senate, would have been an inevitability. Other than the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 and the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, this was the furthest any impeachment effort against a United States president has reached. However it was the most successful such effort, since it directly led to the departure from office of its target, while the other two impeachment trials resulted in acquittals. ==Pre-Watergate impeachment efforts== On May 9, 1972, Congressman William Fitts Ryan submitted a resolution, , to impeach President Nixon. The resolution was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The next day, John Conyers introduced a similar resolution, . On May 18, 1972, Conyers introduced his second resolution, , calling for President Nixon's impeachment. The resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Committee, where they died. These actions occurred before the break-in at the Watergate complex. Representative Robert Drinan of Massachusetts on July 1973, called to introduce a resolution calling for the impeachment of Nixon, though not for the Watergate scandal. Drinan believed that Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia was illegal, and as such, constituted a "high crime and misdemeanor". However, the Judiciary Committee voted 21 to 12 against including that charge among the articles of impeachment that were eventually approved and reported out to the full House of Representatives.
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