Then, Clinton raised, ever so slightly, the top federal tax bracket to 39.6 percent (still much lower than the Eisenhower-era rate of 90 percent and the Nixon administration rate of 70 percent) and made modest cuts to various social programs. ... Republicans, mimicking the liberal-led investigation..…
In her announcement of this inquiry, Speaker Pelosi said that she had tasked the relevant committees with carrying out their investigation, In the investigation of Bill Clinton in 1998 and in the investigation of Richard Nixon in 1973 and 4 both houses of Congress created joint committees, Kiriakou..…
The real issue, at least for political junkies with sense of history, is whether or not this will turn out to be an action-forcing event equivalent to Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. ..…
In 1968, Richard Nixon stole the election, scuttling President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam peace talks and setting up four GOP appointments to Supreme Court. ... Among them was series of calls between Johnson and various people discussing, explicitly, Nixon's efforts to sabotage Vietnam..…
Three Presidents have faced impeachment: Andrew Johnson (who was a Democrat, though he had been Lincoln’s Vice-President), Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton . ... Johnson and Bill Clinton managed to avoid removal from office, though there is little doubt that Nixon would have been..…
Actually, Nixon headed off impeachment and removal as president by resigning. . . ... In one belatedly released tape, recorded days after the burglary, Nixon and his chief of staff, H. ..…
Feinman tags Republican Party, political history, Lincoln, impeachment, Nixon, Teddy Roosevelt... ... Richard Nixon employed the. Bush engineered massive tax cuts, harming the middle class and the poor, and created Gilded Age to the late 19th century. . ..…