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...President Nixon refuses to resign and digs in to fight impeachment, the sizable minority of Americans who want him to continue in office is solidifying into a loyalist bastion that is supporting him with growing determination. According to the latest poll conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., Americans are becoming increasingly polarized, with 53% wanting Nixon out of office and 38% wanting him to stay...
G.O.P. leaders, however, were having no part of it. Although none defended Nixon's conduct, they clearly had decided against asking Nixon to resign despite their outrage over the tawdry portrait of his presidency revealed by the transcripts. Tennessee Senator William Brock, chairman of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, said that Nixon has a right to a Senate trial "if he wants it, which he seems to." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania added: "I think our nation is strong enough to withstand the functioning of its own Constitution." The Republican leaders doubtless also had in mind...
...RESIGN? Nixon gave two reasons to justify his refusal to resign. First, he felt he should stay in office to continue to deal with the great issues of foreign policy that confront the nation: China, detente and the Middle East...
...shown. When duty summons, he obeys, even if it is a crippled President who calls. "I intellectually concluded that I had no alternative but to come over here," he says of his decision to quit his post as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, subsequently, to resign from the Army. "It was a difficult decision in my stomach, but not in my head." He left the order of the military, where he knew what was expected of him, for the uncertainties of the political scene made all the more unpredictable by Watergate. Reflecting, he says...
...Viet Nam War. Noticing how Haig could take the flak without blinking, Nixon sent him on half a dozen diplomatic missions to Saigon. He also promoted him over 240 senior generals to the post of Army Vice Chief of Staff. When Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were forced to resign, it was not surprising that Nixon turned to Haig to give him the loyalty, efficiency and privacy he so desperately craved...