The lesson Nixon imparts to today’s POTUS loyalists is that courts of law and of public opinion will judge them harshly
As the campaign to impeach and remove President Trump has intensified, so have the defenses from his most devoted underlings. Naturally, these have included individuals closest to him—his adult children, his attorneys, and White House officials.
Nixon’s congressional toadies avoided courts of law, but they couldn’t escape the court of public opinion. Republicans fared so badly in the 1974 elections that prominent conservatives pronounced the GOP DOA. The party’s name was “poisoned with negatives,” said strategist Richard Viguerie. It’d be easier to sell “Typhoid Mary, the Edsel, or tickets on thewanted to scrap it all and start fresh with a “Conservative Party,” led by Ronald Reagan or George Wallace.
No one felt the pressure more than Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. They were the first GOP officials who had to take an official vote on Nixon’s conduct. And, because he resigned before the full House and Senate weighed in, they would be the only ones to do so. In May 1974, when their closed-door hearings began,reported that 53 percent of Americans wanted Nixon removed.
columnist Joseph Alsop noted in June, “constitute from 30 to 60 percent of the voters who elected every single Republican member…. You can see how simple mathematics would therefore cause a strong, if reluctant, Republican consolidation behind the president.” These Republicans formed a wall around Nixon, but cracks soon appeared. The committee had some liberal Republicans—a group not yet an oxymoron—but a staunch conservative, Maryland’s Lawrence Hogan, was the first from either party to announce his vote to impeach. In late July, the longtime Nixon loyalist announced that “my President has lied repeatedly” and said he had no choice.
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