Barbara Jordan (link to twitter thread)
Since I’ve no clue how to embed a twitter thread without repeating each prior tweet, here are a few more and the last tweet in this thread:
After listening to Barbara Jordan addressing the House Judicial Committee on Oversight during the impeachment process of Richard Nixon, it was striking, the difference between today’s republican politicians now, and those back in 1974; how congress, both upper and lower chambers carried out their sworn duties to this country, its people, and its Constitution
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note: If anyone else using an IE 11 browser has non-rendering twitter video embeds after clicking to play (a white blank screen), try opening the tweets in a separate tab or new window. That works for me :)