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The investigations into the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation
Two U.S. presidents have had articles of impeachment actually approved by the House of Representatives during the past fifty years (roughly 1976–2026): Bill Clinton and Donald Trump; Trump was impeach...
By many measures—number of scandals, two impeachments, public allegations of using office for private benefit, and an unprecedented effort to overturn an election—the presidency ranks among the most c...
have reshaped wars, institutions and public trust: ’s misleading account of the helped escalate the War, ’s administration used faulty claims about ’s weapons to justify invasion, and ’s deceptions to...
Past have had mixed and context-dependent effects on midterm turnout and party performance: sometimes they galvanized opposition voters and reshaped congressional control, while at other times they pr...
president have faced criminal-processing events in American history: was physically arrested for a local traffic violation in 1872, and was criminally charged beginning in 2023 and later tried and con...
Federal probes involving sitting U.S. senators are a recurring feature of American governance: Congress itself has conducted investigative inquiries since the 1790s and the Senate has both led public ...
Richard Nixon’s presidency became the shorthand example of executive abuse because a reelection scheme escalated into a deliberate cover-up that implicated the Oval Office, federal agencies, and a pat...
Only one U.S. president is clearly documented in the provided reporting as having been effectively told by Congressional leaders to resign: Richard M. Nixon, who stepped down in August 1974 after top ...
The tapes provided contemporaneous, recorded evidence that contradicted Nixon’s public denials and explicitly linked him to steps to obstruct the ’s Watergate inquiry—most decisively the June 23, 1972...
Presidents have long been accused of turning the unique powers of the chief executive toward partisan, personal, or extra-legal ends; documented examples range from cover-ups to contested uses of pard...
’s () was a sprawling criminal and congressional investigation that produced tapes, indictments of aides, and a presidential resignation; ’s inquiries (, ) were sprawling politically and legally but c...
is widely portrayed in contemporary reporting and advocacy research as unusually overt in mixing private financial interests with public office, and his presidency generated multiple high-profile lega...
Presidential s have produced uneven effects on subsequent midterm elections and party control of Congress: in some moments they amplified public backlash and helped the opposition (for example after )...
Across the last fifty years (roughly 1976–2026), only one Democratic president has been impeached by a Republican-controlled House: President Bill Clinton in 1998, when the Republican majority pursued...