Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommend impeachment, the House as a whole cannot escape voting yea or nay on the President. A simple majority of yeas would put Nixon on trial by the Senate, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger presiding. At that point, Nixon might well choose to fight no further and resign...
...What many members of the House would really like, of course, is for Nixon to resign, taking the House off the hook. That, too, is true on both sides of the aisle, though no House Republican has thus far dared publicly voice the feeling. (On the Senate side, the only Republican to call for resignation so far has been Massachusetts' Edward Brooke.) Democrat Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey puts it bluntly: "Most guys hope and pray for a resignation. I can think of 25 Republicans I know who will have to vote for impeachment to save their skins...
Part of Nixon's strategy is to deny any hope of that prayer's being answered. He invited Speaker of the House Carl Albert to breakfast with him at the White House and declared flatly: "I'm not going to resign. I'm going to serve out my term." In his chat with Rhodes, the President reported what Senator Barry Gold water had told him: "Barry was in here the other day and he said to me, 'Resignation? Anybody who had the guts to support me in 1964 has more guts than to resign from...
Though he has said that Nixon should resign, he insists that he has not made up his mind on impeachment. Says he: "I'm still taking the position that I'm a grand juror. I want the Judiciary Committee to report, and then I'll study the report and make my own decision. This is a matter for every man's conscience. I'd never try to persuade anybody to vote one way or the other on this. The best interest of the country must come first...
...Congressmen returned to the House last week, they came under pressure from lobbyists on both sides of the issue of impeachment, the most powerful by far being AFL-CIO President George Meany, who is now dead set against the President he helped elect in 1972. If Nixon does not resign, Meany wants him impeached and tried. The American people, he says, "have a right to know whether or not their President is a liar...