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...Nixon ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to dismiss Cox. Ruckelshaus also in conscience declined. So Nixon fired...
Nixon surrendered his private tape recordings to Judges Sirica out of fear, according to newspaper and television reports. The story, by way of "candid White House officials," is that Nixon and his aides completely underestimated the virulence of the public reaction to Richardson's resignation and the dismissals of Ruckelshaus and Cox. Talk of impeachment led him to the conclusion that he had better "obey...
...HAVE CALLED for Nixon's impeachment in the past, for reasons which we continue to believe are even more important than his insistence that no independent person can legitimately investigate his administration's apparent crimes. But the firings of Cox and Ruckelshaus, and Richardson's resignation mean that for the first time impeachment may be a political possibility. It is therefore of crucial importance that people apply pressure to Congress, whose evident fear of any bold act seems to be the chief obstacle to impeachment...
...League newspapers in calling for the impeachment of President Nixon. The Brown Daily Herald, The Columbia Daily Spectator, The Cornell Daily Sun, The Dartmouth, The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Daily Princetonian and The Yale Daily News have issued similar positions in the aftermath of the departures of Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus...
...order, Agnew's lawyers served subpoenas on TIME and Newsweek, plus reporters for both magazines, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Washington Post, the Washington Star-News, CBS and NBC. Subpoenas also were headed for Attorney General Elliot Richardson, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus and Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen...