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Fortas really had little choice: he had either to resign or to face almost certain impeachment by the House of Representatives. Though he attempted to dismiss his financial dealings with the Wolfson Family Foundation as routine and blameless, the pressure from both Congress and the Nixon Administration became severe and finally intolerable. Fortas decided to resign, he said, as soon as he realized that the furor surrounding him-and the court-could not otherwise subside. "Hell," he said piously, "I feel there wasn't any choice for a man of conscience...
Fortas, who has been under sever criticism for accepting and returning 11 months later a $20,000 fee from the family foundation of financier Louis E. Wolfson, sent Nixon his letter of resignation Wednesday night. He also sent Chief Justice Earl Warren a letter of explanation about...
Fortas received the fee while Worlfson's activities were under government investigation. He returned it when the financier was indicted for violating Federal Securities Law. Wolfson was convicted and is not serving a jail sentence...
Before Fortas sent Nixon his resignation, Rep. Clark MacGregor (R-Minn.) formally asked the House Judiciary Committee to start an investigation of Fortas' relationship with Wolfson to determine whether Fortas' conduct warranted impeachment proceedings...
...statement explaining the fee, Fortas said it was offered by the Wolfson foundation in 1966 "in the hope that I would find time and could undertake consistently with my court obligations, research functions, studies, and writings, connected with the work of the foundation. Concluding that I could not undertake the assignment I returned the fee with my thanks...