WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 A Vermont college professor walked 480 miles from Boston to the nation's capital to drum up support for impeaching President George Bush.
John Nirenberg, a 60-year-old professor from Brattleboro, Vt., argues that, with a year left in Bush's final term, there is still time to investigate his conduct, CBS News reported Sunday.
He points to the Iraq war, the outing of a CIA agent, the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program and abuses of detainees held in U.S.-led prisons as reasons that the president should be brought before Congress.
Nirenberg wanted to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to hand-deliver petitions and letters from citizens pleading for the speaker put impeachment back on the table.
He set out on foot Dec. 2 in Boston, walking primarily along Route 1, averaging 12 miles a day with posters reading "Save the Constitution: Impeach Bush/Cheney" through good weather and bad.
"The public's reaction was fabulous. Ninety percent of those people who chose to express themselves -- we are talking in terms of horn sounds on the roads, thumbs-up, a few fingers thrown in -- were positive. Incredibly, people know what's going on, even without it being a major topic of concern in the press," he said.
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