Hillary makes up history that wasn't and leaves out that which was.

Nixon wasn't impeached he resigned. Hillary should know as she was for a while on the Watergate Commission. But, I'm sure she doesn't remember she was fired from the Commission for lying, a trait she maintains to this day. BTW, her husband was impeached.

“[Hillary] was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? Zeifman said she was one of several individuals who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.

The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. In order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.

The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970.

“As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said.

The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do?

“Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding — as if the Douglas case had never occurred.

Watch: Hillary Clinton gets American history wrong in college commencement speech

Jon Street  May 26, 2017 3:52 pm

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton falsely states that former President Richard Nixon was "impeached." Clinton made the comment during a commencement speech at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Friday, May 26, 2017. (Image source: YouTube) 

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton got some American history noticeably wrong Friday during a commencement address.

Speaking at her Alma Mater, Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Clinton recalled when she spoke at her own Wellesley commencement in the early 1970s. Clinton laid out in her remarks the “tumultuous” political, social, and cultural landscape at the time.

“We didn’t trust government, authority figures, or really anyone over 30, in large part thanks to years of heavy casualties and dishonest official statements about Vietnam and deep differences over civil rights and poverty here at home. We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants would ever be treated with dignity and respect,” Clinton said.

Clinton went on to compare Richard Nixon, who was president when she was in college, to her former Republican rival, President Donald Trump.

“And by the way, we were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice,” Clinton said to thunderous applause and cheers from the audience.

There was one detail that Clinton got embarrassingly wrong in her account of American history, though.

Nixon was never impeached. He resigned under the threat of impeachment for obstructing justice in the now-infamous Watergate scandal.

Clinton herself worked on the Watergate committee when she was a staffer on the House Judiciary Committee.

Nixon ordered the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. Nixon’s attorney general, Elliot Richardson, however, refused to fire Cox. Richardson later resigned his post as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.

Some have compared Nixon attempting to fire Cox to Trump firing former FBI Director James Comey, who led the agency that was investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections and alleged Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government.

Only two U.S. presidents in the history of the country have been impeached, and one of them is Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton.

The House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton in 1998 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, although the Senate voted not to remove Clinton from office.

Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached in 1868.

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