A reminder of Nixon's downfall.......(pic)

[dixiegrrrrl]

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. It is stunning how quickly his approval fell.

[StarfishSaver]

4. His approval fell as a result of the Senate Watergate hearings

By the time the impeachment proceedings began, Nixon's support had pretty much caved.

[StarfishSaver]

2. This is completely wrong

First, it completely leaves out the Senate Watergate hearings that took place in 1973 and had a huge impact on public opinion. Those hearings began in May 1973 and continued through the summer and fall. With some exceptions, they were televised gavel to gavel.

Also, the "televised hearings" that began in May 1974 were televised for 20 minutes on the day the impeachment hearings began. After the first 20 minutes, the Committee closed the hearings to the public and, for the next two months, conducted the rest of its proceedings in private without any television coverage until late July when they were ready to vote.

Here's the actual timeline of Nixon's approval ratings during Watergate (from pewresearch.org, the alleged but clearly false source for the meme you posted):

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/how-the-watergate-crisis-eroded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. thank you for that graph..

The same lengthy process led to the same results, which is the important point. I hear a lot of impatience for impeachment to start NOW and for him to removed quickly.

[StarfishSaver]

6. I totally agree!

[PatrickforO]

8. I like your handle.

If each of us save just one starfish, we'll save the whole lot.

[SeattleVet]

9. Many don't realize that the various hearings and things that are going on now...

are the underlying foundation of facts leading up to the final stages, which are the House impeachment hearings and the Senate conviction vote. It's definitely not a snappy process. Right now it looks like they are laying the groundwork to show that the Mango Mussolini has committed crimes, with enough irrefutable evidence to have an air-tight case. If enough hard facts come out of these early hearings, the Senate contingent of Repugs will at some point have to weigh whether having a blind loyalty to tRump overshadows a sense of duty to the nation and that it will make them look like total assholes (hint - yes, it does, and this fact will even get through to some portion of the people in your state that will be voting in the next few elections).

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. agree. Impeacment is a process, not an event.

Plus, unlike Nixon, this bag of baloney won't get to sail off to live out his days in a favored location.

well, not for long, anyhow, cause he will be for many unpardonable charges yet to come. He knows that, so shoe horning
him out of the office he has defiled is gonna be tricky.

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. This is excellent. I think the impact of televised hearings will be devastating for

Trump's already low approval rating.

[Wednesdays]

10. I see that the moment support for impeachment crossed approval rating

was right about the time of the Saturday Night Massacre.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Ya know, that stunned a nation.

that move changed a lot of minds, it was seen as serious defilement of what our nation stood for. It was the " if he's not guilty, why would he do that?" moment.

ahhhh..the good ole days when people still were patriotic, even despite the war.

[lagomorph777]

13. the " if he's not guilty, why would he do that?" moment.

We've had lots of those; we need many more though, to really focus the public mind.

[BigmanPigman]

3. That is why the TV King (aka the fucking moron)

doesn't want hearings. Crazy like a fox or should I say Fox? He knows his Fux Ruse audience may get a little light bulb turned on in their pea sized and washed brains if they actually SEE Mueller say what is in the report since none of them will read it.