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...President's transcripts, the committee's hearings on the evidence against Nixon may well be outrun by events. But if Nixon refuses to yield to the rising clamor for his resignation, the months-long constitutional process seemed more likely than ever before to lead to his removal. Even staunch Nixon supporters found it hard to name 34 U.S. Senators who would surely acquit him of impeachment charges and thus keep him in office...
...released. Before he paid out $500,000 for food as part of the effort to satisfy the S.L. A.'s demands, he estimated his net worth at $2 million. He earns about $100,000 a year from the Hearst Corp. Wife Catherine, a Southern belle from Atlanta, is a staunch Roman Catholic and a conservative member of the University of California board of regents...
...once again. This time the battle is over the faculty's hiring and firing practices, and the conflict is in the tradition of the protests of the '60s, with rhetoric on one side of "class war", "racism," and "working-class rights," and on the other side appeals to a staunch policy of discipline and academic traditionalism...
...starkest demonstration of the nation's confusion came, naturally, in Americans' attitudes toward politicians. Forty-one percent feel that Nixon should remain President, but 44% believe that the U.S. would fare better if he left. A staunch 42% called themselves conservatives, and only 24% labeled themselves liberals. Despite that, out of a field of 13 leading national politicians (not including Nixon), Senator Edward Kennedy finished first (with 37%) as the man who Americans consider best rep resents their point of view...
...Basically they're staunch conservatives--puritanical in a way--they are people who are compulsive about work. They will work themselves to death until the work is done...