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...long tiers of desks. Speaking earnestly and confidently, Ford hammered home his answers to the two basic questions. Was there a deal between Nixon and himself? "I assure you that there never was at any time any agreement whatsoever concerning a pardon to Mr. Nixon if he were to resign and I were to become President," said Ford in his opening statement. Later he added: "There was no deal, period, under no circumstances...
...tape's contents, Ford continued to say that he believed in the President's innocence while making a three-day tour of Mississippi and Louisiana. Ford's rationalization: any change in his position might lead the press to conclude "that I wanted to see the President resign to avoid an impeachment vote in the House and probable conviction vote in the Senate...
...Republican club won some national prominence last year when it became one of the first organized Republican groups to call on Richard M. Nixon to resign the presidency...
SEVERAL HOURS before Richard Nixon announced he would resign the presidency, a reporter asked former California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. if the pending resignation would, finally, end Nixon's public career...
Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, tried to shift him to a smaller office, he resisted: "Listen, I didn't resign a first-class seat in Congress to take a second-class office in the White House." Now he has Haldeman's office, though without the title and imperial trappings...