Packwood

United States Senator Robert Packwood was the first Senate Republican to support the impeachment of President Richard Nixon during Watergate. Twenty years later, Packwood found himself embroiled in his own career-shattering scandal, complete with possible Senate hearings, furious calls for his resignation, subpoenaed diaries, and two muckraking Washington Post journalists. Accused of making sexual advances toward more than twenty female employees during his long career, Senator Packwood has become a universal symbol of sexual misconduct, the multifaceted, hotly debated issue that has been…