Forty years ago this week Richard Nixon resigned as president of the US, an epochal event. He thereby staved off almost certain impeachment and conviction by Congress for “high crimes and misdemeanours”, the standard laid down in the constitution, stemming from the botched burglary of the Democratic party’s offices in the Watergate building in the summer of 1972.
40年前的8月9日,理查德?尼克松(Richard Nixon)辭去美國總統一職,此舉成為一起劃時代事件。他因而避開美國國會按照憲法規定的“重罪和不當行為”這一標準,幾乎肯定會通過的彈劾和定罪。這件事源起于1972年夏天,發生在民主黨水門大廈辦公室里那次失敗的盜竊。
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