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Some Republican Senators are growing increasingly restive. Both Republican minority leaders, the Senate's Hugh Scott and the House's Gerald Ford, counseled Nixon to release the tapes. New York's Conservative Senator James Buckley said: "I think the consensus of the American people will be that the President, while he has the right to exercise the [Executive] privilege, ought not to be exercising it." His brother, Columnist William F. Buckley, wrote last week: "The argument of Executive privilege is too abstract and too implausible to capture the popular imagination. [Americans] will take the President...
...argument that cropped up in several quarters, in fact, held that there are no real enemies in America, only friendly adversaries. This assessment may hold when John Kenneth Galbraith and William F. Buckley get together and try to match vocabularies, but surely a decade of genocide overseas accompanied by rebellion and oppression at home indicates that someone is not playing the game by the rules of genteel civility...
Referring to Bok's speech to the Associated Harvard Alumni during Commencement week, Buckley wrote that Bok "said maybe Harvard had made a mistake abolishing the Reserve Officers Training Corps...
...when named President of Harvard, was thought by some as being altogether too trendy for the job," Buckley continued. "Maybe the trendiest people will give us back our ROTC...
...said last night he had not read the Buckley column...