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Aug. 5, 1974: The Vote to Impeach
The room was silent, and so, in a sense, was a watching nation. One by one, the strained and solemn faces of the 38 members of the House Judiciary Committee were focused on by the television cameras. One by one, their names were called. One by one, they cast the most momentous vote of their political lives, or of any representative of the American people in a century.
From: The Fateful Vote to Impeach, Aug. 5, 1974

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