At that time, I don't recall the word "censure" being mentioned even once. I certainly don't recall any "moderate" Democrats seeking to "compromise" or listen to the polls and the "will of the people".

Hillary Rodham, the young lawyer working on the judiciary Committee, didn't even want to allow Nixon to have any legal council whosoever!

I don't remember anyone lamenting or worrying about putting the country through the "trauma" of impeachment.

No one complained about a Congressional "coup" or of "overturning the results of the last election" -- an election, by the way, that Nixon won 49 states to 1.

There were no editorials about "putting all this behind us" and "getting back to the business" of running the country in a dangerous world (and the world was much more dangerous in 1974 -- the height of the Cold War and the hot war in Vietnam). Furthermore, Nixon's foreign policy expertise was so outstanding, he was even sought out for advice after he left office in disgrace. Can anyone imagine the next president -- whoever that may be -- coming to the clueless Clinton for advice in dealing with Saddam or Bosnia or North Korea or the Middle East "Peace Process".

But now let's get down to the real differences;

1. Nixon never committed perjury before a Grand Jury.

2. Nixon never had oral sex in the Oval Office with an intern half his age.

3. Nixon never tampered with witnesses who could testify to such an affair.

4. Nixon never sent his wife on national television to blame all his problems on a vast left-wing conspiracy--although a much better case could've been made - the Left wing media loathed Nixon ever since he uncovered Alger Hiss in 1948.

5. Nixon never sold nuclear missile technology to the Communist Chinese in exchange for illegal campaign contributions. They have a word for that, it is called "treason".

6. Nixon never money laundered illegal foreign campaign contributions via monks at a Buddhist temple.

7. Nixon never rented out the Lincoln Bedroom at $10,000 a night to drug dealers, arms smugglers or international criminals; nor did he allow a fat-cat campaign contributor to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. Don't they call that, at the very least, "bribery"?

8. Nixon never stole 900 FBI files on political opponents. For looking at one such file, Chuck Colson went to prison for eighteen months.

9. Nixon never framed and slandered innocent people at the Travel Office to bring in his cronies, nor did he ever hire the likes of Terry Lenzer or Jack Paladino as private eyes to spy on private citizens for the purpose of intimidating them into silence. And he certainly never had anyone on his staff in charge of "Bimbo Eruptions".

10. Nixon never paid $500,000 of hush money to one of his former legal partners who was in prison for fraud and embezzlement. You can file that under "obstruction of justice" as well.

11. Nixon never bombed an aspirin factory and some tents in the desert of North America (resulting in the deaths of innocent citizens) for the sole purpose of getting the Watergate scandal off the front pages.

12. Nixon never had the third highest ranking member of his Justice Department "commit suicide" and then move his body to Ft. Marcy Park, while rummaging through his office to remove incriminating paperwork.

13. When Billy Graham want to publicly ask the nation to forgive Nixon, Nixon told him to keep his distance so he, Rev. Graham, would not be tainted by the Watergate Scandal. (a nice contrast to Clinton's "spiritual advisor" Jesse Jackson).

14. When Nixon found out about Democrat voter fraud in the 1960 election (some late mysterious absentee ballots from Cook County, Chicago) -- he refused to go public with it because he felt it would hurt America.

15. Nixon may have had an enemies list, but Clinton has a body count.

16. And finally, Nixon resigned because he didn't want to "tear America apart".