Fifty-two years ago, in July 1974, freshman Maine Congressman Bill Cohen voted to advance articles of impeachment against then President Richard Nixon out of the House Judiciary Committee, on which Cohen sat, and on to the House floor. It was a brave, gutsy act for a freshman congressman, especially a Republican. Just two years before, Nixon had won re-election by the biggest margin in the history of U.S. presidential elections.
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