Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House has handled its domestic troubles with such relentless incompetence that those of us who would like to help have been like swimmers searching for a way out of the water only to run into one slippery rock after another. [But] those who call for the President's resignation on the ground that he has lost their confidence risk poisoning the wells of politics for years to come. The men who wrote our Constitution were fully aware how waves of emotionalism, if given an easy electoral outlet, could reduce any political system to anarchy. To ask the President...
...President's duty to his country not to resign. It is the clear duty of the House, through whatever procedures it chooses, to frame a charge of impeachment and to set itself a deadline for the task. If a charge is framed and voted, the Senate's clear duty is to proceed in a trial with all deliberate speed. May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received from a fellow Vermonter: "Either impeach him or get off his back...
CLAIRE BOOTHE LUCE: If the President is innocent of the allegations made by the press, the press should not force him to resign. If he is guilty, the Constitution provides the way for bringing him to justice in the due process of impeachment and trial. The President is not above the law, but he is not below it either. He has his right like any other citizen to his day in court. The press has insisted repeatedly that Watergate has brought about a constitutional crisis. The way through that crisis is the way provided by the Constitution. The people, through...
...WASHINGTON POST: It seems to us that the case for resignation is not necessarily overwhelmingly stronger than the case for impeachment. For those who cry "resign" are asking Mr. Nixon to leave office without a formal, final resolution of allegations that have been, or might be, made against him. A President cannot be exorcised, as if he were some unwholesome spirit, merely repeating the incantation, "Resign...
Last August, most Americans (60%) wanted President Nixon to stay in office; now, just fewer than half (49%) do. At the same time, the number who want Nixon to resign has increased from 20% to 29%, but those who want him impeached have held steady at 10%, chiefly because three out of five Americans fear that impeachment would tear the country apart. Nonetheless, close to 43% would favor holding a special presidential election in 1974, if that were possible...