On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:02:32 -0600 Michael Pugliese
<michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes:
> Googling, I see that Nixon's approval rating in August '74 was
> down to 24%.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=nixon%20approval%20rating%20august%201974
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> On 9/4/05, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
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> > As I recall, Nixon's poll rating were
> > still well into the thirties right up
> > to the night that he resigned from
> > office.
You are correct. But Nixon was still in the thirties through the spring of 1974. http://field.com/fieldpoll/presidents.html
I don't think that his drop to 24% occured until his last week or two in office when the bill of impeachment had been voted on by the House Judiciary Committee. By then it was clear that if the bill reached the House floor it would easily pass, and that it would be highly unlikely that Nixon would be able to avoid conviction by the predominantly Democratic Senate.
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