Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 27, 1974
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 27, 1974
Watergate Impeachment Hearings. House Judiciary Committee, July 27, 1974 Walter Flowers (D - Alabama). I yield to the gentleman from New York. Hamilton Fish Jr. (R New York). I thank the gentleman for yielding and Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to address not only the members on this side of the aisle who have labored those last 7 months, but also my friends and supporters in New York who are also by and large supporters of the President s. Mr. Chairman, I intend to vote in favor of this, the first article of impeachment. This comes after long deliberation, but it comes because that analysis of the evidence in this proceeding has led me to this inescapable conclusion. I am sure you realize that my vote is not cast lightly. My decision has not been reached hastily. It is reached at all with deep reluctance only after I have been persuaded that the evidence for such a vote is clear evidence warranting the recommendation by this committee of this article of impeachment to the House of Representatives. I thank the gentleman.