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...call for Nixon to resign was issued by Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley, who was co-chairman of his 1972 re-election campaign in New York. It was the first complete break by a leading conservative-and it was a blow to Nixon's efforts to hang onto the hard-core support that would give him the one-third-plus-one vote in the Senate needed to block any effort to remove him from office. Buckley's eloquent statement (see box next page) was overdrawn in describing the terrors of a Senate trial of the President and sugarcoated...
...urging President Nixon to resign, Senator James Buckley neither denounced Nixon nor prejudged the President's role in the Watergate scandal. The New York Conservative based his call on a tough assessment of the probability that Nixon has already been so irreparably damaged by the affair that he cannot govern effectively. Excerpts...
Last week, after Nixon lost the support of Senator James Buckley of New York, most other conservative leaders followed the example of Senator Goldwater, who said that he would not subscribe to Buckley's solution "at this time." From their statements, however, it was clear that conservatives were not holding back because they approved of Nixon. Rather, they fear that a resignation with no finding that he was guilty of serious wrongdoing would set a dangerous precedent...
...President, if he is truly innocent, resign to appease a hostile press or even a majority of his countrymen." Senator Tower declares that for Nixon to resign when there are only "allegations of circumstantial evidence" against him would do "irreparable damage to the presidency." California's Reagan describes Buckley's call as "a little curve in the road," a departure from proper conservative ideology...
...Butler will perform most of the hurdling chores running in both the intermediates and high hurdles. A supporting cast, Randy Buckley and John Maggio in the intermediate hurdles, could add depth to Butler's one man crusade...