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After attending Harvard's commencement last June, Congressman John M. Ashbrook '52 (R-Ohio) entered the following remarks into the Congressional Record for June 27, 1975, under the title, "Why Some of Us Don't Support Harvard." Ashbrook saw a lot of things he didn't like. Photographer Bob Ely, who was also around for commencement, saw a lot of the same things, and recorded them with his camera...
...appalled Congress was not so much the evidence of particular crimes as the moral squalor revealed in the transcripts. "This is the most nauseating thing I have ever read," declared a hitherto 100% Nixon loyalist, Louis Wyman of New Hampshire, who is not given to overstatement. Said Republican John Ashbrook, a conservative Representative from Ohio: "I listened to the President on television last Monday night, and for the first time in a year I believed him. Then I read the March 21 [1973] transcript, and it was incredible, unbelievable." Complained Massachusetts Republican Congressman Silvio Conte about the transcripts: "I have...
Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook, who ran against the President in several 1972 primaries, argues that "there is not much support for the President below the surface of conservatism. There is a lot of grumbling and downright hostility. For the average conservative, it has been a question of digesting so much stuff: Agnew, the 18-minute gap in the tape, the President's taxes, the missing deed for his papers. It is a litany of events that seems not to cease, and no demagoguery of trying to blame it on the press and on the left is going to work...
Quite a few conservatives have a dim view of Nixon's prospects. "He's not going to resign, and his credibility is going to worsen," complains Ashbrook...
...York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who is up for reelection next year, predicted that the question of Nixon's resignation "will probably come to the front" now that a logical successor is at hand. More surprising, conservative Ohio Congressman John M. Ashbrook declared bluntly: "I have found an increasing number of people, party loyalists, who believe the only hope for the Republican Party and the country is his resignation...