On the Right

IT’S not as it was with Nixon. The thought of Nixon is impossible now except under the shadow of Watergate-which would have meant impeachment and probable conviction. But it isn’t widely remembered that there was a movement to impeach Nixon before Watergate-over the bombing in Cambodia. I remember a moment, in the course of a debate with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. before a huge crowd of students, when I ridiculed the idea of impeaching President Nixon.

“I never came out for impeaching him,” Schlesinger said.