Was Nixon impeached because his family was not one of the "get away with anything" families.

Question

sorry,so he was not actually impeached, but the main question stands

Answer 1

No, Nixon was not impeached, but chose to resign after influential Republicans encouraged him to do so before a vote was taken on the articles.  

Having lived through that period my impression was as follows.

1. We more investigative reporting and less silly and erroneous attacks on both sides.  

2. The news focused on real issues and real problems.  Families and s*x scandal were left to the tabloids.  Fewer inflamtory and misleading opinions and this applies to the whole process.  Both parties.

3. Due to many independent papers there was more competition to write a good accurate and relevant story.  Fewer liberal or conservative journalists that slanted and took news out of context.  Fewer political insiders and patisan analysts always interpreting rather than letting the public read or watch and decide.  

It is not so much "do anything families" as it is disinformation and misinformation.  Therefore today we would fight about Nixon and call names and be called names in return but probably nothing would get done.  That is sad it could cost us our democracy eventually.  

Answer 2

As noted Nixon was never actually impeached; he would have been and would have been found guilty if he had not resigned first.  Nixon made a very stupid mistake but based on more then just sef interest; he was assured of re-election but had some illegal activities done to help the Republicans gain control of Congress and then even "dumber" tried to cover it up and protect the people who got caught.  If he had been another big, same a person who got drunk and had an accident then did not report it and some one died as a result, name at the time Iwould guess he would have gotten way withit but the truth is he was guilty and did the correct thing by resigning.  He does get a bum rap and while what he did was wrong he actually got in the most trouble for the cover up which I believe he did out of loyalty to the people he had do it which I find to be an admireable trait.

Answer 3

Nixon wasn't impeached, he resigned.

There have only been 2 presidents in our history to be impeached.

Bill Clinton & Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

He was impeached  because he was a crook.          .

Answer 5

Nixon was not impeached.  Read a history book.  His mistake was in listening to Dean and Butterworth and not burning the tapes.  Many presidents have done far worse, and history will be kinder to Nixon than the new media was.  Had he burned the tape he could have continued his presidency.

Answer 6

Nixon was not impeached.  He resigned the Presidency before Articles of Impeachment  could be brought up against him.

Answer 7

Nixon resigned when impeachment was threatened because he was involved in the Watergate scandal and tried to hide it.  He was stupid enough to tape all of his conversations though so he implicated himself.  He probably would have faced impeachment had he not resigned first.