Anonymous #2 17h

Why would Nixon have been removed but not the other presidents? Is it because Nixon was found guilty? What would it take to remove a president after impeachment?

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Anonymous #2 17h

Also thank you for your response. I appreciate it

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Anonymous OP 15h

It takes 50% vote of the House to bring charges, then it takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove the president

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Anonymous OP 15h

After the House Judiciary Committee (not the full house) voted to approve impeachment, both the House and Senate Minority leaders met with Nixon to inform him that he had lost the support of enough Senate Republicans that the 2/3 majority existed. Rather than be embarrassed by the House voting to approve impeachment and the Senate voting to remove him, he chose to resign and avoid the embarrassment

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Anonymous OP 15h

Nixon was going to be removed because a) he lost the backing of his party as a whole after a tape came out of Nixon ordering the CIA to pressure the FBI into stopping their investigation into Watergate and b) he was on the side of the Senate Minority to begin with. Whereas Johnson, Clinton, and Trump had solid partisan majorities in the Senate who stood with them

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Anonymous OP 15h

of course, always happy to educate people on political history

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