Jordan gained national recognition after delivering opening remarks at a 1974 impeachment hearing for President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

A gifted speaker, Jordan mesmerized audiences across the country with her primetime televised speech during the Nixon impeachment hearings. She emphasized the importance of checks and balances in the branches of government, and the seriousness of the charges against the president.

"'We, the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.'" she said. "I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in We, the people.'"

She continued: "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

Her address is credited with helping move the impeachment process forward, according to The History Channel.

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