When will these arrogant men realize Speaker Pelosi is playing Rope-a-Dope with them like a master?

[StarfishSaver]

294. Not quite

The hearings you're referring to weren't impeachment hearings. They were conducted outside of the impeachment process by the Senate Select Watergate Committee.

By the time the House conducted its first impeachment hearing in May 1974, public support for impeachment had gone from less than 20% in June 1973 to nearly 50% - thanks largely to the Select Committee's hearings that produced John Dean and revelation of the Nixon tapes in the summer of 1973 and Agnew's resignation and the Saturday Night Massacre in October of that year.

And the impeachment hearings had little impact on public opinion. In fact, most of the hearings were closed to the public, which witnessed only the first 20 minutes of the first hearing before it was closed. All of the remaining hearings were held in private for the next two months. Public hearings didn't resume until late July. By that time, public support for impeachment had inched up to 57%, where it stood when Nixon resigned in early August.

It's a common, but inaccurate belief that the Watergate impeachment hearings pushed the public to support impeachment. It was the hearings and investigations prior to the impeachment process that built the necessary public support for impeachment.

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