Some people distinguish between this dish and taquitos, a similar dish, claiming that flautas are made from flour tortillas and taquitos are made from corn. The terms, however, are often used interchangeably, and some people believe that taquito is a term coined in California, rather than a true Mexican-Spanish word.
In May 1974, the House Judiciary Committee began formal impeachment hearings against Nixon. On July 27 of that year, the first article of impeachment against the president was passed.
Mr. Nixon, described by the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment articles as the unindicted co-conspirator in his Administration's cover-up of the connections between the Watergate burglary and the White House dirty-tricks department, resigned on August 9, 1974.