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...call for Nixon to resign was issued by Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley, who was co-chairman of his 1972 re-election campaign in New York. It was the first complete break by a leading conservative-and it was a blow to Nixon's efforts to hang onto the hard-core support that would give him the one-third-plus-one vote in the Senate needed to block any effort to remove him from office. Buckley's eloquent statement (see box next page) was overdrawn in describing the terrors of a Senate trial of the President and sugarcoated...
...urging President Nixon to resign, Senator James Buckley neither denounced Nixon nor prejudged the President's role in the Watergate scandal. The New York Conservative based his call on a tough assessment of the probability that Nixon has already been so irreparably damaged by the affair that he cannot govern effectively. Excerpts...
...deeply aware, of course, that in recent weeks Richard Nixon has found several occasions to I say that he must defend the office of the President, and that he should not resign because that would weaken the office. But precisely the opposite is the case. As it now stands, the office of the President is in danger of succumbing to the death of a thousand cuts. The only way to save it is for the President to resign, leaving the office free to defend itself with a new incumbent...
Many conservative officeholders agree with North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms that "conservatives will make a serious error if they advocate that a President, if he is truly innocent, resign to appease a hostile press or even a majority of his countrymen." Senator Tower declares that for Nixon to resign when there are only "allegations of circumstantial evidence" against him would do "irreparable damage to the presidency." California's Reagan describes Buckley's call as "a little curve in the road," a departure from proper conservative ideology...
...pronouncement will force many on the right to reconsider the reasons why they want Nixon to stay in office. Says Congressman Bauman: "Some of us feel that Senator Buckley said many of the things that we have had on our minds, although we may not agree that Nixon should resign." Adds California Congressman John Rousselot, a onetime member of the John Birch Society...