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When Cook was brought under crossexamination, the strong case that he had built against Stans began to weaken. Bonner got Cook to admit that he had lied about the Vesco affair to various authorities not three times, as he had testified, but seven-including four times after he had told Stans he was going to tell the truth. The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries. Asked by Fleming if he was not lying in court to save himself from prosecution by the Government, Cook said: "I am not lying...
...national borders to infect almost every country at the same time. And the consequences of the international spiral go far beyond economics: they include a sharpening of social divisions and a shaking of values, as inflation rewards speculators while penalizing thrift. The ultimate threat is that inflation will eventually weaken confidence in democratic governments and institutions and prepare the way for sharp, violent shifts to the radical right or left. At present that danger seems vague, but political leaders do not dismiss it. Says German Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt: "I only have to go to the years...
Although Nixon has already yielded some 700 documents and 19 tapes, he continued to insist in Houston that to give up any more would "weaken the presidency of the United States" and could even lead to "the destruction of the office of the President." His audience, consisting mainly of prosperous radio-and television-station owners and managers, applauded both his sharp replies and some of the tougher questions posed by broadcast newsmen. Firmly and aggressively in command of the situation, Nixon insisted that he was not trying to hide anything; he simply wanted to ensure that no future President would...
Nixon has tried to make fast his slipping anchor on the right. He scuttled a land-use bill in Congress, opposed big subsidies for mass transit and proposed amendments to weaken a consumer-protection bill. But conservatives regard such shifts as being too little and too late. Says Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman: "After five years of losing initiative a change at the last minute to win back our support isn't going to help." So much criticism of Nixon was voiced at a conference of conservatives in Washington last January that Presidential Assistant Patrick Buchanan rather defensively asserted...
...deeply aware, of course, that in recent weeks Richard Nixon has found several occasions to I say that he must defend the office of the President, and that he should not resign because that would weaken the office. But precisely the opposite is the case. As it now stands, the office of the President is in danger of succumbing to the death of a thousand cuts. The only way to save it is for the President to resign, leaving the office free to defend itself with a new incumbent...