Main content

Impeachment: What's changed since Nixon?

Why was the Nixon impeachment so consequential and the Trump impeachment a flop?

In August 1974, the 37th President of the United States - Richard Nixon - resigned after being told by members of his own Republican party that they could no longer support him. Evidence brought during the process to impeach and remove him had implicated the White House in an attempt to sabotage President Nixon's Democratic rivals. The allegations against President Nixon were similar in nature to those levelled at the 45th President Donald Trump. But this week, Mr Trump was acquitted of the two charges against him following his impeachment trial, after Republicans in the Senate voted not to hear new evidence in the case. So, have public attitudes towards allegations of corruption in public office changed over the past four decades? US politics itself, is different, but how did it arrive here? Ritula Shah and a panel of expert guests discuss - what鈥檚 changed since Nixon?

Available now

53 minutes

Last on

Sat 8 Feb 2020 04:06GMT

Contributors

David Paul Kuhn -听Journalist and author of The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and The Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution

Ross K. Baker - Distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University

Eleanor Powell -听Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

John Daniel Davidson - Political editor at the Conservative online magazine 'The Federalist'

Also featuring:

Jeff Flake - Former Republican Senator

Carroll Doherty - Director of Political Research, Pew Research Centre

Image

Richard Nixon, in his first public appearance听after resigning from the Presidency.

Credit: Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

Broadcasts

  • Fri 7 Feb 2020 09:06GMT
  • Sat 8 Feb 2020 00:06GMT
  • Sat 8 Feb 2020 03:06GMT
  • Sat 8 Feb 2020 04:06GMT

The Real Story Podcast

Subscribe via your favourite podcast app...

Podcast