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...pressure for Nixon to resign drove the White House to denial after denial of reports of imminent presidential action. An exasperated Ronald Ziegler, the President's press secretary, finally tried to still the rumor tongues by declaring of Nixon: "His attitude is one of determination that he will not be driven out of office by rumor, speculation, excessive charges or hypocrisy. He is up to the battle, he intends to fight it, and he feels he has a personal and constitutional responsibility to do so." White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig was a little more cautious. In what seemed...
...conservative Senator, Republican Milton R. Young of North Dakota, pointed out that Nixon need not resign to leave voluntarily. Young, who is running for re-election this November, said: "He's getting in deeper trouble all the time. It's a question of whether he can continue as President. It would be a whole lot easier for members of Congress and myself if he used the 25th Amendment and stepped aside until this thing is cleared up." This amendment permits the President to let the Vice President take over temporarily if the President is "unable to discharge the powers...
...multimillionaire and Nixon contributor, but also of the people of the state that it blankets. Nixon got his best voter percentages in Nebraska in 1960 and 1968, and only a few other states did better for him in 1972. Yet the World-Herald concluded last week that Nixon should resign. A remarkable number of other major newspapers that had previously supported Nixon?including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Kansas City Times and the Los Angeles Time?urged his removal from office. The nation's largest newspaper, the normally pro-Nixon New York Daily News, stopped short of demanding impeachment...
...there's one thing you have got to do, you have got to maintain the Presidency out of this. I have got things to do for this country and I'm not going to have ?now this is personal. I sometimes feel like I'd like to resign. Let Agnew be President for a while. He'd love...
...said, "Do you think the President knows?" And I looked at her and said, "If I thought the President knew, I would have to resign." . . . Well, when that type of question comes through in my home...