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Richard Nixon won the 1972 U.S. presidential election by a large margin. He defeated the Democratic Party nominee, George McGovern, by winning 60.7% of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes out of 537. This was one of the largest landslides in U.S. presidential election history.

It wasn't imminent at all.

If Nixon wanted to end the republic as we know it, he nearly could have. He had a insane mandate by the people.

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That's an F grade in any high school history class. Nixon's own party made it clear they were going to remove him if he didn't resign. You can't deny undisputed historical facts.

It's also safely assumed that a full 60% of the public would not have voted for him if they knew he was going to betray his duty.

He didn’t have an insane mandate of Congress, which decidedly was going to impeach him.

It took some time and solid investigation but his party wholesale rejected him and made it clear he had no political future. Nixon was could either resign or be humiliatingly fired.

We no longer have a Congress which values country over party. There’s a good chance Trump could have murdered someone on 5th Avenue and he still would not have been impeached.

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