The standards of conduct of former presidents?

Yup, know all about it. However, I believe such "gentlemen's agreements" are very bad for democracy.

As to the already resigned/can't be impeached argument...how original, that one.

My answer: the quid pro quo.

The quid pro quo means Nixon was willing to resign immediately (handily avoiding the impeachment), in exchange for Ford giving him a complete pardon so he could also avoid criminal prosecution.

Dandy little deal, that one.

Without Ford's pardon, the criminal proceedings would have begun, as they should have.

And before you go lecturing people in public about the Nixon pardon and the constitutional process regarding impeachment, you might consider Article I, Section 3, clause 7.

Don't know what that is?

Look it up, jackass.

"What it DID do was spare us a continuation of
the Watergate hearings ad nauseum."

Oh please, you are an adult citizen of the United States, aren't you? Were you so fucking traumitized you couldn't stand to see due process run it's course, and all branches of government live up to their constitutional mandates?

Poor fucking baby. People like you, who worship at the foot of your tv sets and swallow the propaganda hook, line and sinker make me sick. It is people like you that are standing by, watching our government go down the toilet.

Of course, your tv propaganda induced amnesia never heard phrases like "historic precedent" and "Imperial Presidency"?

What a whiny, ill informed idiot you are.

I bet you loved the movie "Love Story" too.

Kiss, kiss.