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Among those Americans who would like to see the President resign, 86% feel that he has been acting as if he were above the law. and 91% believe that he has failed to get to the bottom of the Watergate mess...
...evidence for the House to impeach the President, though by 49% to 38% they said Nixon's actions were not serious enough to justify the Senate's removing him from office. A survey conducted earlier for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., found that 55% of Americans wanted Nixon to resign or be impeached, up from 39% in November (see story page...
...public support was continuing to fall dramatically when he decided to appear on television and release edited transcripts of the Watergate tapes last week. Shortly before the President's announcement, Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., completed a poll for TIME showing that the percentage of Americans who wanted Nixon to resign or be impeached had jumped to 55%, from 39% last November and 30% last August (see accompanying chart). The results indicate that those who wanted to see Nixon out of office clearly would prefer that he resign rather than be impeached. If the President fails to resign, however, the people...
...added that he does not believe Nixon should resign. "I do not favor resignation. If the president is innocent, there are no grounds for urging him to resign...
...expect him to resign," McGovern said, "and I think Congress has to stand up and have the courage to pursue this inquiry and make a finding under the impeachment clause...