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Virginia Heffernan: Trump's impeachment should be the simplest in American history

"Now, on the investigation, you know ..."

So began the fateful White House conversation that revealed the "smoking gun" in President Nixon's hand in the Watergate scandal.

Like Trump in summer 2019, Nixon in summer 1972 was obsessed with investigations.

Nixon schemed with his chief of staff to stop investigations into his guilty henchmen and what the president knew and when he knew it. That scheming figured into the first article of impeachment against him.

Trump schemed

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