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1. The @NixonLibrary has just released its oral history with Hillary Clinton, part of its compilation of the accounts of the participants in Watergate. And it’s *fascinating.* (h/t @NotoNixon)
2. I wrote about her role in my impeachment story: "John Doar, the attorney hired by House Judiciary to oversee the Nixon investigation, handed off the question of what constituted an impeachable offense to two young staffers: Bill Weld and Hillary Rodham” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
3. (That’s a remarkable sentence. Both popped up again during the Clinton impeachment—Weld testified against it—and are players again today, as Weld is the sole Republican challenging Trump for the nomination.)
4. In the oral history, conducted last July, Clinton talks about how to think about impeachment when the Senate may not vote to convict. 
5. "What should the country have learned from the House's role in impeachment in 1974?” @TimNaftali asks Clinton. "I think that it's such a serious undertaking,” she replies. "Do not pursue it for trivial partisan political purposes…."
@TimNaftali 6. “...If it does fall to you while you're in the House to examine abuses of power by the president, be as circumspect and careful as John Doar was. Restrain yourself from grand standing and holding news conferences and playing to your base…."
@TimNaftali 7 “...This goes way beyond whose side is on you’re on or who's on your side. And try to be faithful purveyors of the history and the solemnity of the process."
@TimNaftali 8. And then Clinton offers some very serious advice for the House today: “Those who talk about it now should go back and study the painstaking approach that the impeachment inquiry staff took. And it was bipartisan.”
9. This, I think, is the most important thing to take away from the Nixon proceedings. The process matters. That’s part of what went wrong in the late ‘90s, when it was short-circuited. And it’s something those opposed to launching an inquiry fail to understand today.
10. Anyway, it’s worth reading or watching the whole thing. And I’m grateful to @NixonLibrary for its work in compiling resources historians will draw upon for years to come. nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/…
