Sure, the merits of his presidency are debatable but less arguable is how he restored a measure of trust in a White House damaged by the Watergate scandal and subsequent pardoning of Richard Nixon. President Carter has also enriched my reading life. He has written about thirty books, and ...
The House Judiciary Committee approved all three articles, but the articles never reached a full House vote. An impeachment seemed inevitable after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the White House to release the tape of a phone call that showed Nixon had ordered a cover-up of Watergate. Even ...
On August 9, 1974 Richard Milhous Nixon resigned as president of the United States two years after the Watergate Scandal first began. 27. What happened on Black Tuesday in the United States? From Quiz What Happened? Answer: The stock market crashed in the U.S On Tuesday, October 29, 1929...
"If he's on our rolls, we make a notation on there. If they show up at a polling place, we'll say, 'Wait a minute, you're a convicted felon, you can't vote. Nine out of 10 times when we repeat that to the person, they say 'Thank you' and walk away. They don't put up...
“To me it was a whitewash, to me it was Watergate,” grand juror Jerry Sandoval, a Denver bus driver, would say later. “We’re not legal experts. Why didn’t they help us? How can they say it’s not legally adequate, when they wouldn’t help? It’s their fault.” ...
Steve made it clear that I personally had brought bad luck to Bloomington and that if Indiana did not win that it would be best if I never attended another game at Memorial stadium. It was after midnight when the Hoosiers finally stopped a two-point try by Akron, using my time-honored...
“The origin of life on Earth is the biggest mystery of human beings. Scientists can have totally different points of view on the matter. Some think that life is very rare and happened only once in the Universe, while others think that life can happen on every suitable planet. If panspermi...
I would never had agreed to this if I didn’t trust everyone involved. So there’s the story. It may be a little too personal, but every time I found myself holding a beer in some dude’s garage, looking at a motorcycle or collection of motorcycles, I had to pipe up with: “...
Watergate June 22, 1977 John Mitchell begins serving his 30-month sentence for his involvement, making him the first U.S. attorney general to serve time. Read More 8 0 Copy to Share This Entry GI Bill June 22, 1944 The Serviceman's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill, is sign...
Trump would have never hired Jeff Sessions had he known he would recuse himself from the Russia investigation. "Sessions should have never recused himself," Trump said, "and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody...