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)辞去美国总统一职,此举成为一起划时代事件。他因而避开美国国会按照宪法规定的“重罪和不当行为”这一标准,几乎肯定会通过的弹劾和定罪。这件事源起于1972年夏天,发生在民主党水门大厦办公室里那次失败的盗窃。
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