Palmer, Gerald Lee, (fl. 1973) to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09613.02.0018 Author/Creator: Palmer, Gerald Lee, (fl. 1973) Place Written: Oxnard, California Type: Typed letter signed Date: 29 October 1973 Pagination: 4 p. ; 28 x 21.7 cm. Order a Copy
One letter from Gerald Lee Palmer to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated October 29, 1973. Palmer writes in support of the impeachment of President Nixon. He includes a numbered list of grievances with the Nixon administration, spanning the entirety of Nixon's presidential term. He requests the vote for impeachment stating, "I make this request not because of the current furor over 'the tapes' but because of a continuing for and one-half years of unconstitutionally sordid activity by the Nixon administration."
The missing tapes refers to 18 1/2 minutes of audio that was missing from recordings taken in Richard Nixon's oval office. The missing footage recorded a conversation between Nixon and his Chief of Staff Harry Robbins Haldeman three days after the Watergate break in. According to Haldeman's notes one of the topics during the meeting were arrests made at the Watergate Hotel break in.
Carlos J. Moorhead was born on May 5, 1922 in Long Beach, California. He was elected Representative for the 43rd Assembly District of California from 1966 until 1972. During his tenure, Moorhead was Vice Chair of the Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works Committee, and a member of the California Law Revision Commission. Moorhead left the Assembly after being elected in 1972 to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican. He was elected to represent California's 20th district beginning his term in the House in 1973, Moorhead served on the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Nixon. Moorhead voted no on all three Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee on July 27, 1974.
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