Transcript for Brainwaves podcast: How Nixon's resignation changed us: impeachment 45 years later 45 years ago, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned. On this episode of the Brainwaves podcast, what were some of the long-term impacts, did America ever truly heal, and given the state of politics, could Congress ever carry out impeachment in a bipartisan way ever again? We talk two political scientists: CU Boulder professor Ken Bickers and the Benson Center’s William B. Allen.