MY PAPER ON IMPEACHMENT, 1979? Late seventies. University. Course on The America

MY PAPER ON IMPEACHMENT, 1979?

Late seventies. University. Course on The American Presidency. Paper Required. Half the Grade. Twenty something people start the class. Seven of us finish. I do my paper on Impeachment. Prof doesn’t tell me it was the subject of his thesis. (ouch). I think I got a C? and I probably deserved it, since I read the books AND wrote it over spring break in about a week or so. That said, General position I came to (and he came to), is i) that no president would ever be impeached (removed from office). ii) that it is too politicized a process and a purely political process iii) because ‘high crimes’ isn’t sufficiently defined, and iv) it’s really hard to even try to commit a high crime in office. v) the worst that can happen is ‘bad judgement’ which isn’t a crime. vi) and anyone who did anything would leave office.

Nixon was questionable. Clinton’s was ridiculous. Trumps is even more ridiculous.