Commenter writes - "Had he not resigned, Richard Nixon -- you may have heard of him -- faced certain impeachment and probable conviction for ordering the CIA to tell the acting FBI director to stop an investigation into money laundering through Mexico by Nixon's re-election campaign."


There is absolutely no doubt that impeachment was guaranteed.  When the group of senators went to the White House to meet with Nixon in August 1974 the message was simple - conviction in the Senate was a certainty as well.