Hello and welcome to this day in Esoterk political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, July 28th, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27 to 11 to recommend the impeachment

of President Nixon on a charge that he personally engaged in, quote, a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the

Watergate case in the next few days they would vote to recommend several other articles of impeachment,

abuse of power, contempt of Congress.

I will point out that this official inquiry

started way back in February, and of course,

the larger Watergate scandal had been brewing and building

for years.

But this vote was, in many ways,

the beginning of the end for Nixon he'd lost the

support of Congress he resigned a few weeks later there were some twists and turns

still to happen along the way and we'll get into those I will say this kind of

caught me off credit but this is the first time that

we're talking about Watergate on this show so let's do it with Nicky Hammer as always from

Columbia.

Nicky Watergate, first time.

Yeah, it's actually really surprising as somebody who like Leon has spent a lot of time in Watergate country it is

surprising to me that we haven't haven't done a lot of chatting.

Yeah and that Leon is Leon Nefuck host of Podcast, and also the host of the first two seasons of

slow burn.

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