Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial for his responsibility in the Watergate scandal. As witnesses parade before the Ervin Committee, spilling their tales of burglary, electronic eavesdropping, forgery and bribery, the public is judging how much Nixon is responsible for the crimes. If the judgement is harsh, he will most likely have to resign, pious pronouncements about the integrity of the presidency notwithstanding...
...President should resign. That is the only honorable course open to him. In no self-respecting European democracy, and perhaps only in that of our allies in South Viet Nam, could a regime conceivably ride out a scandal of the magnitude of Watergate. Mr. Nixon, who has delighted in setting precedents, should set one more and thereby help patch a yawning loophole in the Constitution...
...Watergate routines. Audiences hooted at a parody of Nixon's re-election slogan: "Four more years-with two off for good behavior." More ominously, there was open speculation, in print as well as in conversation, about the President's being impeached or having to resign. Even Nixon's bitterest foes dreaded the prospect, if only because it would mean President Spiro Agnew. Congressman Henry Reuss, a liberal Democrat, made a rather fantastic proposal for the resignations of both Nixon and Agnew...
SENATOR LOWELL P. WEICKER JR., 42, another member of the select committee, was the first Republican to demand-on what seemed like thin evidence-that H.R. Haldeman resign as chief of the White House staff. As a result, he was instantly in trouble with G.O.P. regulars in Connecticut. Now that he has been vindicated, his home-state stance has improved, and he might emerge as a candidate for Vice President...
...NIXON AND WATERGATE. "I do not want Nixon to resign. Agnew is worse than Nixon. I prefer a weakened Nixon in front of me-he will not have the same prestige as before-to a new Agnew in back of me ... Your people cannot be moved by the killing of yellow people. The killing of Cambodians means nothing to them. Watergate is more important to them, and we put our hope in the Watergate affair...