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...most of them students--chanted slogans outside the club while Ford addressed the Harvard Republicans within. Most of the demonstrators never saw Ford, who entered and left by a back door, but a splinter group of about 100 who had broken around to the back of the club chanted "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford," when the vice president's car flashed by. He waved. The remaining pickets blocked traffic in front of the club...
...Impeach Nixon...
...only way for America to resolve the presidential problem is to impeach Mr. Nixon and allow the Senate to try him fairly. The way things stand now, we are getting nowhere; but if we impeach the President then he will be either justly acquitted or justly removed, and we could go back to politics instead of playing in the dirt...
...ranks of even last-ditch Southern supporters were far from solid. Republican Senator John Tower of Texas, a Nixon loyalist, was described by an aide as being in a "state of anguish." While still maintaining that there was insufficient evidence to impeach, the aide admitted: "This thing is closing in on the President pretty hard right now." Said a Southern Senator: "You have to realize that these Southern members of Congress are not going to let their conservative leanings sway them if there is a clear moral issue involved. They are talking about the gutter language indicated in the transcript...
...tapes that may figure most heavily in any effort to impeach the President are those of March 21 and 27, 1973. TIME has learned that it was the March 21 tape of an Oval Office meeting of Nixon, Dean and Haldeman that prompted the Watergate grand jury to recommend the President's indictment for conspiracy. Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski dissuaded the jurors, arguing that it was questionable whether an incumbent President can in fact be indicted, that the recourse against a President is impeachment. Jaworski also warned that if the Supreme Court were to rule that the grand jury...