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Watergate affair
Watergate affair in U.S. history, series of scandals involving the administration of President Richard M. Nixon ; more specifically, the burglarizing of the Democratic party national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate Break-in On June 17, 1972,... Read more |
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executive privilege
executive privilege exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congressional inquiries or the judiciary. Claims of executive privilege are usually invoked to... Read more |
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housing class
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Five Houses
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Front of House
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Round House
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House of Representatives
House of Representatives The lower chamber of the two chambers of the US Congress, the other being the SENATE. The House of Representatives comprises 435 members, the number for each state being determined by population, though every state is entitled to at least one Representative. The size of the... Read more |
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igloo
igloo [Inuit,=house]. The Eskimos traditionally had three types of houses. A summer house, which was basically a tent, a winter house, which was usually partially dug into the ground and covered with earth; and a snow or ice house. The latter was a dome-shaped dwelling constructed of blocks of snow... Read more |
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Barbara Jordan (American congressional representative)
Barbara Charline Jordan Attorney Barbara Charline Jordan (1936-1996), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976, was a prominent member of the House Judiciary Committee when it held President Richard M. Nixon's impeachment hearings. Barbara Jordan was born in Houston,... Read more |
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Grounds for impeachment: Nixon, Watergate, and the White House horrors
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Newt Gingrich asserted...I think, than Watergate." Gingrich, who...that constituted Watergate, of which illegal...by Pres. Richard Nixon and his staff from...Committee in the Watergate apartment-office...uncovered the roles ... |
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Starr's Prosecutors Seek Direction From Watergate's `Road Map'
...months before House hearings on the impeachment of Richard...constitute grounds for an impeachment...inspecting the Watergate prosecution...They {Watergate prosecutors...year-old Watergate documents...1974, ... |
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STARR DELIVERS HIS FINDINGS TO CONGRESS PROSECUTORS SAY INFORMATION MAY...
...constitute grounds for the impeachment of President...involving White House intern Monica...since the Watergate inquiry that...of Richard Nixon in August...since the Watergate ... |
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Black Legislators Show Support For Clinton.(Congressional Black Caucus...
...Following the House of Representatives...articles of impeachment, President...outside the White House and...voted against impeachment and championed...President Nixon in the Watergate conspiracy...clothes of ... |
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Impeachment inquiry brings a sobering sense of history in the...
...history, the House Judiciary...recommend the impeachment of the president...evidence, finds grounds on which...President Richard Nixon, the Senate Watergate hearings...array of Nixon aides and...investigating ... |
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Rep. Peter Rodino, 95; Presided Over Nixon Impeachment Hearing [Correction...
...congressman and House Judiciary...articles of impeachment that led...Richard M. Nixon in 1974...linked to the Nixon White House had broken into the Watergate office complex...to review ... |
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As Nixon's approval slipped, impeachment approval came slowly
...embrace his impeachment. Pollsters...there was for Nixon's removal...about the Nixon presidency...century after Nixon's tortured...days in the White House, Congress...dropped as Watergate ... |
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WALTER MEARS: A middle ground between impeachment and doing nothing
...discredit upon the House by using tax...censuring President Nixon for Watergate. He got support...recording showing Nixon had been a cover...from office, Nixon resigned...colleagues when the impeachment of ... |
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Panel to ask Starr: Impeachment evidence beyond Lewinsky?
...AP) _ The House Judiciary...basis of the impeachment drama now...a formal impeachment inquiry...of the 11 grounds that Starr...firing of the White House travel...Richard M. Nixon during ... |
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GOP Proposes Wide-Ranging Clinton Inquiry; Plan Modeled on Watergate Rules
House Republicans...unrestricted impeachment inquiry of...used during Watergate, even as the White House decried...Richard M. Nixon's 1974...sufficient grounds exist for...authorization of the ... |