was nixon...?

Question

impeached or did he resign? if he was impeached, was he the first to be impeached

Answer 1

yes he was impeached.

Answer 2

Nixon resigned. He was never impeached. However, the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend that the full House impeach him on most of the charges brought against him. He resigned before that could have happened.

The first president to be impeached (but not convicted) was Tennessean Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln upon his assassination. Other federal officials and officers have been impeached (and some of them were convicted and, thus, removed from office), but Johnson was the first president. The second president was Clinton, who also was not convicted.

No president has ever been both impeached AND convicted. The three (out of 42 presidents so far) who faced impeachment did so for totally different reasons. Johnson's was the most politically motivated. Nixon--who, again, quit before impeachment proceedings likely would have begun-- was perhaps the most genuine effort; it involved "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" DIRECTLY RELATING to performance in office (Watergate). Clinton's dealt with personal failings, most egregiously, lying under oath.

Answer 3

Nixon resigned in August 1974 prior to the House voting on articles of impeachment.
Andrew Johnson the 17th President was impeached and was found not guilty by the Senate as was President Clinton the 2nd president to be be impeached.

Answer 4

Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate so they weren't removed from office.

Answer 5

Nixon resigned because he felt he wouldn't last through an impeachment vote that was coming. But most people think he would have been impeached.

Andrew Johnson was impeached. More for just not being well liked than for any one thing he did. He was not popular because people were dissatisfied with the Civil War. He called the congress "loud" and he tried to declare a law that required the president to have a unanimous vote in congress to dismisss a cabinet member unconstitutional.

And them Clinton was impeached, but not removed

Answer 6

The One That Got Away.

Impeachment appeared inevitable, and Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974.
The Articles of Impeachment, which can be viewed at http://watergate.info/, leave no doubt that these charges qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors," justifying impeachment.

Answer 7

Nixon resigned. Andrew Johnson was the first impeachment.

Answer 8

Richard Nixon was the first president to resign and the second to be "impeached." (The first was Andrew Johnson.) Keep in mind that the legal phrase "impeached" means to "bring charges against" and is not to be confused with "removal from office" which could be the result of a "trial" on the charges of impeachment in the Senate.

Nixon "resigned" rather than face a trial in the Senate. To date only Johnson and Clinton have faced such a trial and no one has ever been "removed from office" as the result of such a trial.

Answer 9

Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford. But Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.

Answer 10

Nixon resigned.

Peace..................

No American Presient has been impeached - - - or rather booted out of office therefore etc--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
""Congress traditionally regards impeachment as a power to use only in extreme cases; the House of Representatives has initiated impeachment proceedings only 62 times since 1789. Two cases did not come to trial because the individuals had left office.

Actual impeachments of only the following seventeen federal officers have taken place:

Two presidents: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, both acquitted.
One cabinet officer, acquitted after he had resigned.
One senator (William Blount, see below)
Thirteen federal judges, including Associate Justice Samuel Chase in 1805, seven of whom were convicted (after his conviction, former judge Alcee Hastings was elected as a member of the House of Representatives).[2]
The 1799 impeachment of Tennessee Senator William Blount stalled on the grounds that the Senate lacked jurisdiction over him. Because, in a separate action unrelated to the impeachment procedure, the Senate had already expelled Blount, the lack of jurisdiction may have been either because Blount was no longer a Senator, or because Senators are not "civil officers" of the U.S. who are subject to impeachment. At any rate, no other member of Congress has ever been impeached, although the Constitution does give authority to either house to expel members, which each has done on occasion, effectively removing the individual from functioning as a representative or senator.

In addition, Richard Nixon decided to resign in the face of the near certainty of both his impeachment, which had already been approved by the House Judiciary Committee, and the apparent likelihood of his conviction by the Senate."""

Peace

Answer 11

Nixon was impeached by the House, but he resigned prior to trial by the Senate.
A. Johson was also impeached by the House, and acquitted by the Senate, by a one-vote margin
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