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In reply to the discussion: For those that weren't around during Watergate... [View all]Ahpook
(2,747 posts)17. Did Nixon have his bootlicker supporters
In Congress and the rubes who voted for him?
Did it seem like the impeachment process would be stymied in the same way we are experiencing now? We know Mcconnell will throttle anything to do with this.
On edit: I know he resigned when it became obvious he was toast but, does anyone think Trump will go out the same way? I doubt it!
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hopefully not THAT similar to Iran-Contra..... Reagan and GHWB escaped that unscathed.
groundloop
Oct 2019
#24
Republican Senator Howard Baker's question "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
SharonAnn
Oct 2019
#30
That was at the end of Watergate, summer of '74. We're just getting started.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Oct 2019
#32