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Impeachment Trial Nixon resigns Alexander Hamilton Nixon and Watergate An impeachment hearing on television with the text Article 1 Perjury, Two-thirds vote needed to convict. Guilty: 45, Not Guilty: 54. The U.S. Supreme Court, 2009 Alejandro Mayorkas Trump Impeached
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