Just before Richard Nixon became the first American president to resign, U.S.News & World Report took a look inside the impeachment process and the story surrounding it. U.S. News quoted New York Rep. Barber Conable saying, "The sands are flowing through the glass and they have almost run out. A lot of people who have had the luxury of indecision are going to have to make a decision. And that in itself is changing the mood in the House. We're right up against the grisly thing now."