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You are a bit misguided about how the government actually works.  The Chief Executive's power is balanced by Congress and Judicial.  After all, Congress brought Nixon to an accounting.  That is it's job in part. You keep glossing over the fact that this was a very powerful, unified and hostile GoP Congress with a mandate:  regime change and a contract with America.  If they could have found him guilty of more then they did do you seriously doubt the wouldn't have?  People tend to think the President is much more powerful then he is because he is one, clearly identified person, unlike Congress.  But unless you have a Congress and a President that are very closely aligned - like the previous Congress and Bush, that is not often the case.