He didn’t have an insane mandate of Congress, which decidedly was going to impeach him.
It took some time and solid investigation but his party wholesale rejected him and made it clear he had no political future. Nixon was could either resign or be humiliatingly fired.
We no longer have a Congress which values country over party. There’s a good chance Trump could have murdered someone on 5th Avenue and he still would not have been impeached.
Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by flangola7 on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:17AM
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That's an F grade in any high school history class. Nixon's own party made it clear they were going to remove him if he didn't resign. You can't deny undisputed historical facts.
It's also safely assumed that a full 60% of the public would not have voted for him if they knew he was going to betray his duty.
It wasn't imminent at all.
If Nixon wanted to end the republic as we know it, he nearly could have. He had a insane mandate by the people.