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...House members, and they think the votes are there" for impeachment. This, he suggested, is partly because of "the dilatory tactics" of Nixon and his men in dealing with the Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino. Moreover, said Mansfield, he did not want the President to resign, as suggested by Republican Conservative Senator James Buckley, and indicated little enthusiasm for any legislation granting him immunity from prosecution if he were to leave office. "This matter should take its course," Mansfield said, meaning a full Senate impeachment trial. "We should not have another Agnew situation," he added...
...illegal. A week later, the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit in Federal District Court in Kansas City, Mo., charging the cooperative with unfair trade practices, including price fixing. Upset by the course of their political activities and the resulting publicity of both suits, the AMPI asked Nelson to resign as general manager...
...another dinner, this time for the diplomatic corps, was being canceled and another meeting was being postponed, a crucial one scheduled for this week with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Finally, despite the insistence of his aides that Georges Pompidou was not seriously ill,* popular suspicion that he would resign and plunge France into an electoral campaign gained fresh ground...
Quite a few conservatives have a dim view of Nixon's prospects. "He's not going to resign, and his credibility is going to worsen," complains Ashbrook...
...four months, the share of people surveyed by the statewide Minnesota poll who want Nixon to resign has gone from 36% to 47%-just two points below those who want him to continue in office. Asked if they felt that Nixon had broken his oath of office, 58% said yes. In California, the Field Poll found 46% believed that Nixon should be impeached, an additional 24% felt that he should resign, and only 23% said that the investigations should be dropped...