Charles T. Canady: “It is true that the committee rejected an article of impeachment based on tax fraud against President Nixon, but it is…”

“It is true that the committee rejected an article of impeachment based on tax fraud against President Nixon, but it is equally clear that the overwhelming majority of the members of the committee who expressed an opinion on that subject said that they were voting against that article because there was insufficient evidence to support tax fraud. Mr. Speaker, I would like to quote what the subsequent chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, Mr. Brooks, a Democrat, said in that context. He said that no man in America can be above the law. It is our duty to establish now the evidence of specific statutory crimes and constitutional violations by the President of the United States will subject all Presidents now and in the future to impeachment. No President is exempt under our U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States from accountability for personal misdeeds any more than he is for official misdeeds.”