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...purported to give the inside story of Nixon's fall, but what the millions of Russian listeners heard was something Nixon's last-ditch defenders in the U.S. would have been embarrassed to offer. The commentators referred several times to the "socalled Watergate affair" without once explaining it or even suggesting that Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President...
Richard Nixon had received the message. When he held a private talk with one of his last-ditch supporters, Rabbi Baruch Korff, in the President's Executive Office Building hideaway at 3:30 p.m., he told Korff that he was seriously considering resignation...
Although giving it some consideration, Nixon stiffly resisted that choice. "He kept mentioning the importance of not short-circuiting the constitutional process and of avoiding the setting of a dangerous precedent," said one Nixon aide. Nixon proposed that he take his case once more to the people in a last-ditch television appeal, thought about it, then rejected his own idea. As so often in the Watergate saga, his perception was poor, almost disconnected from reality: he was not at all certain that the effect of the newest tape disclosure would be that fatal. He ordered his aides to draft...
...last-ditch alternative to impeachment, some Republican Representatives, with concurrence of Gerald Ford, proposed that the House censure the President. In lieu of impeachment, the motion would merely chastise Nixon for "moral insensitivity, negligence and maladministration"-a featherweight rap on the knuckles. The notion was so strongly opposed by the Democratic leadership that it was given little chance of even reaching the floor...
When the results came in, it turned out that the Faculty, in the lightest turnout ever in a council election, swept in most of the conservative slate, but the liberals seemed fairly pleased with the success of their last-ditch effort...