The Big Oil companies paid for Nixon's impeachment because they needed to get rid of his wage and price freeze . Otherwise their phoney gas shortage wouldn't work .
NIXON SIGNED AN ABM TREATY WITH RUSSIA AND OPENED NEGOTIATIONS TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH CHINA, BOTH JUST AHEAD OF THE 1972 ELECTIONS. THESE WERE LEGAL EXPLOITATIONS OF THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY, THAT YIELDED POLITICAL ADVNTAGE TO HIM. HE WAS POPULAR WITH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, YET, THE GOP DID ITS JOB FAITHFULLY, AFTER THE WATERGATE SCANDAL.