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John Hope Bryant: “Let me respond briefly that the Constitution itself talks about impeachment as well as election. The two processes are…”

On the recordDecember 18, 1998
Let me respond briefly that the Constitution itself talks about impeachment as well as election. The two processes are compatible, according to our forefathers, since they completely understood that you had first to be elected in order to be subjected to the impeachment proceedings. As to the polls and newspapers around the country, more than 100 major newspapers have called on the President to resign. If this President would put the country in front of himself for one time and follow the advice of the same or many of the same newspapers to resign, and the polls show a majority of the Americans would like to see the President resign, I think we would all be better suited.
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John Hope Bryant
Texas

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Discussing the compatibility of impeachment and election during a debate on presidential conduct.

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