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Similarly, on Capitol Hill last week, Democratic and Republican leaders alike tried to quell rank-and-file congressional demands that Nixon step down and save the nation the trauma of impeachment and trial. Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia warned that a forced resignation would polarize the nation. "A significant portion of our citizens would feel that the President had been driven from office by his political enemies," he said. "The question of guilt or innocence would never be fully resolved." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield declared that "resignation is not the answer." House Speaker Carl Albert...
...believe that the only possibility is an informal assurance by various officials that Nixon would not be pursued. Jaworski is reportedly of a mind not to prosecute in the event of resignation, apparently reflecting what he believes would be the general public relief at having been spared the impeachment trauma. Attorney General William Saxbe would probably not move on his own. And Gerald Ford could, of course, agree to grant a pardon or block prosecution once he is President...
...Labor Party, entrenched in power because of Israel's system of proportional representation, has grown old in office and increasingly unresponsive. The October war, which ended for Israel without a clear victory for the first time and at a terrible cost of 2,600 dead, was a national trauma. Since the war, according to polls, dissatisfaction with the government has risen to an astounding 67% of voters interviewed. Mrs. Meir's popularity plummeted from 65% before the war to 21% in February...
Somewhat trite and rhetorical comments indeed, to describe the national trauma left in the wake of the Watergate scandals. But these words from a moderate upstate New York Republican congressman represent the sort of thinking that very well may have Richard Nixon standing trial before the Senate by mid-summer...
...Watergate affair had its faint origin in what was itself a trivial and foolish incident. But from this minor incident, Watergate has expanded on a scale that has plunged our country into what historians call a "crisis of the regime." [This] is a disorder, a trauma, involving every tissue of the nation, conspicuously including its moral and spiritual dimensions...