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Should President Nixon resign? Should he be impeached? Or what should he do to prevent either? Last week those once unthinkable questions were argued in a solemn and unique national debate. Excerpts from the most notable opinions...
...Congress to pass legislation calling for a court-appointed prosecutor, Jaworski sounded like a man determined to dig just as deep as Archie Cox had tried to. He told a House judiciary subcommittee that he had taken on the job only after receiving "what I consider the most solemn and substantial assurances of my absolute independence." That independence not only included asking for any tapes or other material he wanted, but also suing the President if they were not forthcoming. True, admitted Jaworski, he had been given these assurances not by the President but by White House Chief of Staff...
...first time in 105 years, a committee of the House of Representatives assembled last week to begin an inquiry into the possible impeachment of the President of the U.S. Like many historic occasions, this one began with relatively obscure preliminaries and routine, undramatic details. Unlike the solemn moment of nonpartisan statesmanship that was clearly called for, however, the first full-scale meeting of the House Judiciary Committee devoted to the impeachment question produced a round of unfortunate bickering between Democrats and Republicans and a vote recorded along strict party lines. The committee's chances for future cooperation were hardly...
Striding with a fixed smile into a solemn gathering of newsmen, Nixon confronted television cameras and declared that he had been the victim of reporting that he assailed variously as "outrageous, vicious, distorted, frantic and hysterical" (see Hugh Sidey on the press conference, page 23). Perspiring and barely containing his anger at times, Nixon insisted that "the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." The recent scandal-inspired shocks that have so jolted the nation "will not affect me and my doing my job," he said. He had been through so much controversy ("it has been my lot") that "when...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...