@Jennifer1984 Said
I think Nixon was given a Presidential pardon by Gerald Ford which meant he couldn't be tried for any criminal activity after he left office.
@Erimitus Said
E: As I remember it Nixon resigned before he was impeached. It was that nice President Clinton who was impeached.
J: I think Nixon was given a Presidential pardon by Gerald Ford which meant he couldn't be tried for any criminal activity after he left office.
J: Perhaps that was a part of the deal for securing his resignation.
E: Near certainly
E: If, God forbid, the current POTUS were to resign, I bet that nice VPOUS Pence will give him a pardon.
Yes.
> Nixon resigned, to avoid impeachment by our H.R. and (ultimately) removal by our Senate.
> Ford pardoned Nixon, thus he could not be tried for any related crimes.
> I went to a speech by Ford, a few years later. Ford explained his rational for the pardon... essentially stating that prolonging the investigation of Nixon & any subsequent trials of Nixon would have been more detrimental to the USA than valuable, and that it was time for the USA to begin to heal from the scandal.... etc.
> I always kind of felt like Ford's explanation was convenient BS, as I feel like more good would have been done for the USA and our political system to have a corrupt president go down and go down hard.
(Admittedly not a very forgiving nor "christian" like attitude on my part.)
> Clinton got impeached by our H.R. for lying about having consensual
relations with an adult female in the Oval office. Our Senate chose to not remove Clinton from office. There was, apparently, no crime committed thus no criminal investigation of that particular set of events would ever have occurred.
(Note: A Federal Judge (right or wrong) determined that Clinton's lie was not
material to either an ongoing criminal investigation nor a judicial proceeding, therefore while being a lie was not actually perjury.)