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...this, grace under pressure has been in short supply. After being ungraciously dumped as energy adviser (the third to be appointed), former Colorado Governor John Love said last week that he felt "battered and bruised." Richardson must have felt much the same way when he was forced to resign. By serving in three different Cabinet posts, Richardson incidentally matched another record. George Cortelyou, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt, was the only other man to hold three Cabinet positions-Treasury, Postmaster General, and Commerce and Labor-under one U.S. President...
...testimony, Lawrence Higby disclosed that Haldeman still wielded a shadowy influence over some White House deliberations seven months after he was forced to resign. Higby said that Haldeman knew almost as soon as the President did-that is, on Nov. 15-that 18 minutes of the tape had been obliterated. Moreover, Higby testified that later that day Haldeman ordered him by phone to retrieve his handwritten notes on the meeting. Higby also said that four other sets of notes kept by Haldeman, including one subpoenaed by the Watergate prosecutors, were missing from the vault where they had been kept...
...believe Nixon's claim that two of the tapes never were made. A plurality (47% to 27%) believed that the two tapes were destroyed because they would have revealed the President's complicity in the Watergate coverup. More seriously, the percentage of Americans wanting Nixon to resign his office rose to 43%, a sharp climb from 36% in October...
Last month when George Meany and the AFL-CIO at its convention in Florida boomed approval of a resolution calling for President Nixon to resign or be impeached, White House officials pointed to press coverage of the event as an example of distorted reporting. Not all labor leaders had supported the resolution, complained the White House, and thus the reports that the AFL-CIO decision was unanimous were misleading. The Administration's example of a pro-Nixon labor leader: Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers' Union and member of the 35-man AFL-CIO executive council...
Hall did oppose the resign-or-be-impeached resolution when it was presented by Meany to the executive session of the giant labor federation's council. He alone among the 31 members present at the closed-door, prebreakfast session voted no to the proposal. Later in the day, when the resolution went before the 2,000 delegates to the convention, Hall sat stonily silent through the discussion and the floor vote; the resolution passed unanimously. Since executive sessions are held in secret and only the later convention meeting was open to the press, newsmen did not know Hall...