Lesson Plan—What Is Impeachment?

resources for thinking about watergate in the era of trump.

Sources for What is Impeachment? @ SUNY Brockport Student Union 114, Tuesday, 14 November 2019.

1. Daniel Bush, “The complete Watergate timeline (it took longer than you realize),” PBS News, 30 May 2017

2. Randi Kaye, “How Did Watergate Unfold,” CNN Politics

3. Watergate: Inside the scandal that took down a presidency, ABC News

4. “The Watergate Story,” Washington Post

5. Slow Burn Podcast: Watergate

6. Slow Burn: The Clinton Impeachment

7. Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974)

8. Cass R. Sunstein, Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (New York: Penguin Random House, 2019)

9. “Watergate and the Constitution,” National Archives

10. All the President’s Men, dir. Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford (1976)

11. Isaac Chotiner, “How Watergate Set the Stage for the Trump Impeachment Inquiry,” New Yorker, 25 September 2019

12. Joan Walsh, “Stop Comparing the Trump Impeachment Probe to Watergate,” The Nation, 14 November 2019

13. David Crary, “How rare is an impeachment inquiry? Trump joins small group of presidents,” USAToday, 25 September 2019

14. Heather Cox Richardson, “The impeachment hearings are a battle between oligarchy and democracy,” The Guardian, 16 November 2019