Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...related events were still unfolding beyond his control. A leading conservative Senator publicly urged him to resign. The Watergate special prosecutor issued a subpoena for more White House evidence-destroying Nixon's repeated claim that he had been fully cooperating with the multiple investigations...
...call for Nixon to resign was issued by Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley, who was co-chairman of his 1972 re-election campaign in New York. It was the first complete break by a leading conservative-and it was a blow to Nixon's efforts to hang onto the hard-core support that would give him the one-third-plus-one vote in the Senate needed to block any effort to remove him from office. Buckley's eloquent statement (see box next page) was overdrawn in describing the terrors of a Senate trial of the President and sugarcoated...
...urging President Nixon to resign, Senator James Buckley neither denounced Nixon nor prejudged the President's role in the Watergate scandal. The New York Conservative based his call on a tough assessment of the probability that Nixon has already been so irreparably damaged by the affair that he cannot govern effectively. Excerpts...
...deeply aware, of course, that in recent weeks Richard Nixon has found several occasions to I say that he must defend the office of the President, and that he should not resign because that would weaken the office. But precisely the opposite is the case. As it now stands, the office of the President is in danger of succumbing to the death of a thousand cuts. The only way to save it is for the President to resign, leaving the office free to defend itself with a new incumbent...
...Slingerland's resignation didn't come close to shaking Harvard to its roots or anything like that. But it was unusual; officials at Harvard, especially in these quiet times, very seldom resign at all, let alone in a tremendous public huff...