EBOOK

How the Good Guys Finally Won

Notes from an Impeachment Summer

Jimmy Breslin
4.3
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Pages
192
Year
2012
Language
English

About

After the Watergate scandal corrupted American democracy, it took a gang of honest politicians to restore honor Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip O'Neill noticed that Democratic fundraising efforts for the 1972 election had stalled. Major contributors were under IRS investigation, and Republican lackeys were threatening further trouble if those donors didn't close their checkbooks. O'Neill sensed a conspiracy coming from the Nixon administration, but it wasn't until the scandal broke that he connected the threatened donors with the Watergate burglary. In the boldest move of his career, he did something that would shock the nation: O'Neill decided to impeach the President.   To his fellow members of the House of Representatives, this was an ugly idea. But as evidence mounted against Nixon and his cronies, O'Neill led the charge against the President. This blow-by-blow, conviction-by-conviction account is a gripping reminder of how O'Neill and his colleagues brought justice to those who abused their power, and revived America after the greatest political scandal in its history.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

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"Breslin's reporting is superb and so is his prose, his insights keen and often startling, his wit unceasing."
The New York Times
"A spirited recounting of how people better than Richard Nixon brought him down."
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal columnist
"The good guys are politicians, and the thesis of this amusing diary of the Watergate summer is that we're lucky that they are."
The New York Times

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