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WITH each passing hour the Government crisis in Washington grew more tense. A federal grand jury was meeting secretly to consider indictments of high Nixon officials in the Watergate wiretapping and its coverup. The President was spending long days considering what to do about the scandal. The dismissal or suspension of some of his closest aides was not only anticipated, but overdue. Around the capital, the suspense was complicated by a pervasive air of unreality, a sense of something gone disastrously wrong very near the center of the nation's power. Yet there was no word from Nixon...
...resignation was made public. Nixon's choice was William D. Ruckelshaus, 40, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. A tough-minded lawyer, liberal Republican and a former Assistant Attorney General, he is known to be appalled at the continuing revelations of White House involvement in the Watergate coverup. He does not expect to serve more than two months, said Ruckelshaus, and he does not want to be considered as a permanent replacement for J. Edgar Hoover...
...endless operations conducted by Hunt and Liddy seem to contradict Nixon's contention that Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman will eventually be cleared of charges. Government investigators say now that the two Nixon aides and four other White House officials led a coverup of the bugging, and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell reportedly ordered the wiretapping of The Times reporters...
Nixon may be too late. When the crisis called for directness, Nixon answered with evasiveness. When it became clear that his chief legal counsel supervised a coverup, Nixon answered with a phone call "you're still my counsel." When the situation called for leadership, Nixon answered by further isolating himself from the American people...
Instead of asking 13 days ago for the resignation of his aides involved with the break-in at Democratic National Headquarters or those implicated in the alleged coverup attempt, Nixon asked Henry A. Kissinger '50, his foreign policy adviser, to give a major speech on European relations. Kissinger's speech momentarily displaced the Watergate affair as the top news story, but it proved the detrimental effect the Watergate affair is having on Nixon's programs. When Kissinger pleaded for "compassion," it was not only for the convicted conspirators, but for Nixon's floundering Administration as well...