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...Haldeman warned: "John, you shouldn't do that, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is hard to get it back in." But on April 15 they learned that "Dean has decided to let it all hang out." Next day Dean was asked by Nixon to resign...
Continued Neal: "He was not asked to resign when he tells the President there has been perjury, subornation of perjury, offers of clemency and a half million dollars paid to buy silence on March 21, but three weeks later when he tells the President of the United States, Mr. President, I am telling prosecutors all, the next day he is asked for his resignation." Soon, according to Neal, everyone was saying, "John Dean did this, John Dean did that, John Dean made me do that, I was just acting on John Dean's instructions...
...most shaped the news and influenced the course of history. In other circumstances, that man might well have been Richard Nixon. More than two years after the Watergate burglary, after months of scandal that left the nation divided and depressed, Nixon became the first American President to resign. Yet no matter how dramatic the denouement, Nixon's role was essentially passive and self-destructive; his Administration was at last overtaken by the slow, relentless working of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress and ultimately the public conscience. Nixon's departure was a strange and absorbing spectacle, but the great...
...some sympathy from the jury earlier in an emotional recitation of his final days in the Nixon Administration. On questioning by his lawyer, William Prates, Ehrlichman recalled being summoned to Camp David on the afternoon of April 29, 1973. There, on a cabin porch, Nixon told him he must resign. Ehrlichman said Nixon found this chore "very painful" and even "broke down at one point and cried." Nixon offered him money for legal fees and "anything else he could do for me." All Ehrlichman wanted, he testified, was for Nixon some day "to explain to our children...
...speculation that followed Tanaka's announcement that he would resign as Premier, Miki was barely even considered a dark horse. It was widely assumed that only two L.D.P. elders, both with the backing of strong factions within the party, had a chance of succeeding Tanaka: Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 64, who enjoyed the outgoing Premier's support, and former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69. Although he had previously been a candidate for the premiership, Miki (see box following page) could count on the backing of only a minor bloc within the party. Moreover, he had the reputation...