Nixon Enemies List entry for
John Conyers, Jr.:
| List and position: | First/Top 20, #13 |
| Name as originally listed: | John Conyers |
| Vitals: | 5/16/1929 - 10/27/2019 |
| Comment on original list: | Congressman, Detroit |
| Lists with duplicates of this person: | 1 |
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- Congressman from Detroit 1965-2017. - Note in Top 20 list says, "leading black anti-Nixon spokesman." - listed both in Top 20 and under "black Congressmen." - boycotted Nixon's State of the Union Address along with all black Congressmen in January 1971 after Nixon refused to meet with them as a group. - called for Congressional investigation of Vietnam War atrocities, Feb. 2, 1971. - founding member of Congressional Black Caucus in Feb. 1971. - second most long-serving member of House after John Dingell. - recipient of Southern Christian Leadership Conference Award, presented to him by Dr. Martin Luther King. - only member of House Judiciary Committee to serve on impeachment panels for both Presidents Nixon (1974) and Clinton (1998). (Conyers died just two months before Trump's first impeachment in 2019.)
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