Word: resignations
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...that a poll of 393 Yale alumni and their wives showed that 70% favored an inquiry into impeachment. What is more ominous for Nixon is the collapse of some of his most loyal props. In a striking about-face, the pro-Nixon Detroit News urged the President to resign "to spare the nation three more years of turmoil and political vendetta." Admitting that the nation was in the midst of a "classic crise de régime," William F. Buckley's conservative National Review concluded that the President must step down if he no longer enjoys the support...
...effort to determine how the American people were responding to their President's problems, senior TIME correspondents conducted a nationwide survey last week. They found differences from one region to the next; New England was most ready to see Nixon resign or be impeached, the South most willing to forgive his flawed stewardship or even defend him as the victim of his critics. Everywhere there were Americans who still applaud his achievements in foreign policy, and particularly in finally ending the Viet Nam War. But the dominant mood was a growing sense of dismay, disenchantment, despair, and a willingness...
...takes no extrasensory perception to divine the public mood, though Beatrice Schmidt, a parapsychologist in Greentree, Pa., predicts that Nixon may "stagger along for a year and then resign." Others give him less time. W. Harry Sayen, G.O.P. chairman in Mercer County, N.J., thinks that Nixon loyalists have tried to "hang on and hang on to his believability. But something snapped after the Cox debacle...
Says Peter Hochreiter, a Buffalo stockbroker: "The country is undergoing a binge of masochism, and Nixon should not resign." E.A. Lee, a retired construction company manager in Hamilton Square township, N.J., agrees: "If Nixon gets out, we'll just be giving some other burglar a chance...
Despite their misgivings about Nixon, most Midwest citizens stop short of calling for impeachment. Many wish he would resign, but few hold out much hope for that. John Bauswein, 26, a registered Republican who runs a tavern in Cleveland, worries that impeachment would tarnish the country's image abroad: "I support the President only in that I don't want him impeached. I don't want the country further embarrassed." Some Midwesterners feel that impeachment would disfranchise them. Says Marjorie Bohac of Kimball, Neb.: "A vocal minority is trying to accomplish by impeachment and removal...