I'm really happy to have you here.

Through an odd series of events,

surrounding the profoundly, profoundly criminal

presidency of Richard Nixon,

and the really, really, really criminal vice presidency

of Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew,

through an sort of odd confluence of events

surrounding those two national leaders.

In the early 1970s, the US Justice Department

kind of bumbled its way into stating

for itself, putting it to writing, a new rule.

This is a rule that wasn't in the Constitution, in any way.

It's an issue that had never really been seriously

considered and decided one way or the other

before the Justice Department was confronted with it

urgently during the Nixon administration.

But thanks to this, again, sort of odd series of things

happening all at once in the early 70s.

The vice president, Spiro Agnew, may be going to prison.

The president, Richard Nixon, may be being removed

from office against his will by impeachment.

Thanks to those things coming together,

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