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Congress intervenes after oversight failure
Public hearings reveal executive abuse
Former White House aide John Dean III is sworn in by Senate Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) in 1973.
(The Washington Post, 2022)
Testimony revealed “a secret taping system in the Oval Office.”
— Senate Watergate Committee, 1973
John Dean testifying before Congress
(American Archive of Public Broadcasting, 1973)
Articles of impeachment accused Nixon of “obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress.”
— House Judiciary Committee, 1974
Congress reasserts constitutional oversight role
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