{"id":4112,"date":"2024-05-09T00:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/pete-mccloskey-gop-congressman-who-called-for-nixons-resignation-dies-at-96\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:08:45","slug":"pete-mccloskey-gop-congressman-who-called-for-nixons-resignation-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/pete-mccloskey-gop-congressman-who-called-for-nixons-resignation-dies-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who called for Nixon\u2019s resignation, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Paul N. \u201cPete\u201d McCloskey, a Republican congressman and decorated Marine who turned against his own party leader, President Richard M. Nixon, accusing him of expanding an \u201cillegal\u201d war in Vietnam and calling for his impeachment over the conflict while challenging him for reelection, died May 8 at his home in Winters, Calif. He was 96.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul N. \u201cPete\u201d McCloskey, a Republican congressman and decorated Marine who turned against his own party leader, President Richard M. Nixon, accusing him of expanding an \u201cillegal\u201d war in Vietnam and calling for his impeachment over the conflict while challenging him for reelection, died May 8 at his home in Winters, Calif. He was 96. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}