Word: columnist
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...from prominent Democrats. Said Senator Edmund Muskie: "I doubt if a majority of Congress would want to set impeachment in motion, but duty might lead Congress to do it." The majority of Democratic politicians, however, held their tongues and allowed the Republicans to fret and criticize in public. Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick had already called Watergate "squalid, disgraceful and inexcusable." Crosby S. Noyes, a moderately conservative columnist for the Washington Star-News, surprised the capital last week by predicting that "when Nixon realizes the extent to which his authority has been shattered by these events, he will resign...
...Omaha World-Herald said: "It will not wash if some element of the press is obliged at a future time to say 'Oops, our source was wrong about the President's involvement.' " Several lonely voices have constructed a tortured rationale for the campaign skulduggery. Syndicated Columnist Richard Wilson of the Des Moines Register claimed that H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell "conceived of themselves as the conservators of the kind of system they believed most Americans wanted...
Depicting the President as an innocent victim of his aides is another theme. "Judging by all the known evidence," Columnist Joseph Alsop said recently, "the President was persistently, flagrantly and arrogantly lied to about this matter, by a whole series of men to whom he had given total confidence." The El Dorado, Kans., Times agreed: "We believe that when the matter became public the President was lied to by the yard by men [whom] he trusted, and who went to disgusting lengths to try to make his campaign for re-election a winning one." In William...
Buckley Jr.'s National Review, Columnist George F. Will concluded that the Nixon "tough guys poisoned the atmosphere in the White House" with consequences "disastrous for Mr. Nixon, the presidency and the nation...
...York Times Op-Ed page, most of which has been devoted to knocking the President, has made room for some defenses as well. Ex-Nixon Speechwriter William Safire, whose debut as a regular Times columnist has suffered from the strain of Watergate, weighed in with a conversation between himself and his mother conducted over Mom's chicken soup. "Mom-if you can't be sure the President didn't know, do you think he should resign?" Her plucky reply: "Absolutely not. He has character, and if he didn't know, he should stay...