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...week as both he and the U.S. Congress dug in for a long and fierce struggle over whether the President should be removed from office. At the White House, Nixon told Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick in a rare interview that after "long thought," he had resolved not to resign "under any circumstances...
...were his lawyer," says Law Professor John Flynn of the University of Utah, "I don't think I would tell him to resign until he had a clear-cut deal to avoid criminal prosecution." Massachusetts Trial Lawyer Richard K. Donahue, a former aide in the Kennedy White House, counsels that "at this point the President would be in a stronger position to bargain than in a month or two from now. You don't make a deal when the jury is out." But making such a deal may present insuperable problems...
Thus, in the narrowest view, the President has little legal incentive to resign now. But Nixon's perspective must necessarily be broader as he thinks about his problem, since his situation is unique. Going the full route of impeachment and trial in the Senate could well generate further evidence against him, even if he were not convicted. It could also sharpen the public perception of criminal culpability, and thus increase the pressure to pursue him in the courts after he left office. The impeachment ordeal is not one that the public or Congress welcomes, and an early resignation could...
...past few months, rumors have buzzed through Bonn that a tired and discouraged Willy Brandt would soon resign as Chancellor. Yet West Germany, and indeed all of Western Europe, was caught by surprise last week when the 60-year-old leader abruptly announced that he was leaving office. The ostensible cause of his resignation was the scandal that followed last month's arrest of Günter Guillaume, a close personal aide who confessed to being an East German spy. (TIME...
...develop its vast resources-and pledged to give free enterprise a looser rein. Most important of all, he promised to put a curb on the country's worrisome economic problem, inflation, which is now running at the rate of 14% a year. He promised that he would resign in six months if he could not curb inflation-a promise that most Australians viewed with skepticism...