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Bill Moyers Journal: Impeachment of a President (57:33) In the wake of President Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence, talk of impeachment is gaining steam: an opinion poll says that nearly half of all Americans favor impeachment of the President, and more than half believe Vice President Cheney should be impeached as well. Bill Moyers gets perspective from constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and The Nation’s John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism. A Bill Moyers essay on war is also included.
Impeached: How Presidents Handled it - Trump vs. Clinton (3:33) How can a president continue to govern with an impeachment trial looming? President Clinton and President Trump adopted very different strategies.
President Nixon Resigns 1974 (15:00) On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced that he would resign from office, effective the next day. Nixon's involvement in the 1972 Watergate scandal had precipitated impeachment hearings, which the president was eager to avoid. Although Nixon admitted to "bad judgments"; undertaken in the best interest of the nation, he did not admit that he had committed any crime.
The Rhetorical Highlights from the Impeachment of Bill Clinton (01:44:23) This program focuses on memorable speeches from the rare political event of the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. Informative and discussion-provoking.