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At some point in this process, I really felt as though I were in quicksand, 

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that even though I disagreed strongly with Richard Nixon's policies, it was just overwhelming to know all of the details of his misconduct.

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And it wasn't just the break-in, and it wasn't just the subornation of perjury, and it wasn't just getting the CIA to stop an FBI investigation,

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and it wasn't just the enemies list, and it wasn't just the wiretapping,

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and it wasn't just the illegal bombing of Cambodia, and it wasn't just the secret bombing of Cambodia. You couldn't come up with a list that was big enough.

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It was just more and more and more, and you just felt as though you were sinking and there was no bottom.

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No end of the misconduct, no end to the violation of the law, no end to the criminality, no end to the conspiracy, no end to the conniving,

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no end to how they were just trying to put their own political and personal survival over the good of the country.

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It was, so I—that's the feeling I had. It was just overwhelming. I never expected to see that. It was very sobering.

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Nobody took any pleasure, not—I know the Republicans didn't, but nobody that I know.

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No Democrat on the committee took any pleasure from seeing what we had to see, and dealing with what we had to deal with. And

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having to vote for the impeachment of Richard Nixon was one of the most sobering, somber things I ever had to do in my life. I did not want to have to do it.

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I would have wished a thousand times that he hadn't acted in the way he had so that I would not have to sit in judgment on him.