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A few days after the Supreme Court decision, after weeks of hearings, the House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of impeachment, charging Nixon with obstruction of justice in the Watergate case, with violating the rights of certain citizens with regard to the administration of justice, and with unconstitutionally denying the Committee ...
Feb 17, 2022 · BOOK EXCERPT. Watergate’s Central Mystery: Why Did Nixon’s Team Order the Break-In in the First Place? Fifty years after the crime, the author of Watergate: A New History offers five...
Nov 16, 2009 · Congress had accused Nixon of obstruction of justice during the investigation of the Watergate scandal, which began in 1972. White House tape recordings revealed that Nixon knew about and...
In this speech before the Congressional Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, of October 17, 1974, President Gerald Ford explains his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. Nixon had resigned on August 9, 1974, and Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor a month later, on September 8.
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Sep 8, 2018 · After 11 a.m., Mr. Ford announced he was pardoning Richard M. Nixon, the former Republican president and his old boss who resigned weeks earlier in disgrace, accused of obstruction of justice...
Watergate and the pardon were contributing factors to the Republican loss of 43 seats in the House and three in the Senate. Two years later, lingering public resentment over the pardon was a factor in Ford's narrow loss to Democratic Party nominee Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election.
President Richard M. Nixon's resignation created the Ford administration—and left Ford with the excruciating dilemma of whether to intervene in Nixon's legal fate in the Watergate scandal.
