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...Massacre" at his Justice Department, he had grudgingly agreed to yield to the demand of prosecutors and the courts. He would give up his nine tapes. Then, as he was about to do so last week, came the incredible admission: Nixon's lawyers told Federal Judge John J. Sirica that two of the most-wanted tapes did not even exist...
...disclosure moved Sirica to begin open hearings at once into the circumstances of the tapes' being or nonbeing and inspired a new surge of protest telegrams, which deluged official Washington with fresh demands that Nixon must leave office. Even some of Nixon's least likely critics turned against him. Columnist Joseph Alsop, ardent champion of the President's foreign policies, said that he must resign. Howard K Smith, ABC-TV'S highly independent commentator, declared that the tapes revelation "deepens suspicion inevitably that there has been a cover-up all along and it is still going...
...truth about Watergate-were not to be found. In making that admission, Presidential Special Counsel Fred Buzhardt predicted: "By the end of this hearing, we will have established with mathematical certainty beyond any doubt that those two tape recordings were never made." After three days of testimony before Judge Sirica, with more to come this week, no such certainty seemed yet in sight...
...Judge Sirica must pursue his investigation into the circumstances surrounding the tapes' "non-existence." If the Nixon administration has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that Nixon's word cannot be taken at face value...
...While Sirica's investigation continues, however, Nixon's travesty must be put to an end. Nixon must not be given further opportunity to put the presidential stamp on his lies. His removal from office is long overdue...