This is bill gholston. Hes with brookings institution. He serves as the studies chair and senior fellow. Good morning to you. Good morning. And the actual chair would be distressed to learn i staged a coup. [laughter] when it comes to public sentiment, particularly on impeachment, what does history teach us . Guest my two touchdowns our 1974, nixon impeachment, and 1998 99 of the clinton impeachment. In the case of Richard Nixon, sentiment started off very low, below 20 support for impeaching the president from office, and it rose slowly through but steadily through the last half of 1973, through 1974 and did not go above 50 until the very end. Clinton,port for bill his job approval was in the 60s and support for impeaching him was very low and never got higher. The endpened in reflects those differences in Public Opinion. Host meaning what . Guest by the time Richard Nixon was facing the republican delegation led by barry goldwater, not only had support in the senate collapsed for him
Panelists. Theyll introduce themselves before their presentations. Theyre each going to speak for about 10 to 12 minutes at the most about their Current Research on president ial commissions. And then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And ill reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan. Do with that information what you will. I am frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasely, i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago, i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions, and its one of the very few sources i think on them, and a couple of months ago my 49yearold book was dug up and i was asked to participat
Hell bound now to compound the party of hate s mistakes and further commit to has become their political Suicide Mission leading up to the 2020 president ial election. And just when we thought the radical dem activist judges were beginning to take fairness and impartiality and justice, somewhat more seriously. An obama appointed federal judge has blocked the Trump Administration asylum restrictions as the American People increasingly are rejecting the open border policies of the radical left. The radical dems staying stupid. Continuing their unprecedented harassment of the president. Just listen to these 2020 radical dem hopefuls spewing what is mistakenly, ignorance. Now, President Donald Trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. The house of representatives should begin impeachment proceedings against the president. We know for a fact that the president did everything he could to obstruct the mueller investigation. Lou behind closed doors house speaker, nancy pelosi, alleged
Hell bound now to compound the party of hate s mistakes and further commit to has become their political Suicide Mission leading up to the 2020 president ial election. And just when we thought the radical dem activist judges were beginning to take fairness and impartiality and justice, somewhat more seriously. An obama appointed federal judge has blocked the Trump Administration asylum restrictions as the American People increasingly are rejecting the open border policies of the radical left. The radical dems staying stupid. Continuing their unprecedented harassment of the president. Just listen to these 2020 radical dem hopefuls spewing what is mistakenly, ignorance. Now, President Donald Trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. The house of representatives should begin impeachment proceedings against the president. We know for a fact that the president did everything he could to obstruct the mueller investigation. Lou behind closed doors house speaker, nancy pelosi, alleged
Hell bound now to compound the party of hate s mistakes and further commit to has become their political Suicide Mission leading up to the 2020 president ial election. And just when we thought the radical dem activist judges were beginning to take fairness and impartiality and justice, somewhat more seriously. An obama appointed federal judge has blocked the Trump Administration asylum restrictions as the American People increasingly are rejecting the open border policies of the radical left. The radical dems staying stupid. Continuing their unprecedented harassment of the president. Just listen to these 2020 radical dem hopefuls spewing what is mistakenly, ignorance. Now, President Donald Trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. The house of representatives should begin impeachment proceedings against the president. We know for a fact that the president did everything he could to obstruct the mueller investigation. Lou behind closed doors house speaker, nancy pelosi, alleged