Impeachment may be possible, but only if this President is convicted in the right court.
It is not the House. It will not be the Senate.
And it will not be with any written report.
We are five years away from the half century mark. And conservative lawyer, author, and television personality Ben Stein can still be brought to tears. His voice breaks as we watch on weepy video:
Really sad. And I … I … don’t think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than Nixon. Ever. I just … I think he was a saint.
It seems like a minority opinion. It certainly was back in 1974, as Saint Nixon resigned. A widely accepted poll measured his popularity at 24%.
Hard to imagine sympathy today for a president who we now know ordered a firebombing that subordinates quietly countermanded, who is recorded screaming at aides about a burglary that had not been carried out, who directed government harassment of political enemies. All we knew about back then was the cover-up.
It is not hard to imagine an alternate timeline in which Ben Stein represents a majority, of a successful continuation of his second term, perhaps even more terms with fixed outcomes, for he was an ambitious individual, of continuing popularity.
All we would need would be a world without the Senate Watergate Committee.
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