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...John Ehrlichman or H.R. Haldeman would probably do it, given their stature and known closeness to the President. The indictment and conviction of these men, even if they did not implicate the President, might make his survival in office difficult. On the other hand, even highly damaging testimony from lesser witnesses, including John Dean, would almost certainly be insufficient to dislodge...
Beef Farmer Randolph Huffman, 50, reflects the opinion of some Americans who voted for Nixon in 1968 and 1972 but never fully trusted him. "I don't really like Nixon, but both times I figured he was the lesser of two evils," says Huffman. "This type of Watergate thing goes on all the time. These boys were just unfortunate to get caught. But Watergate has caused us to lose whatever confidence we had left in our Government, in the System...
...been unable to arrange a meeting between Rogers and President-elect Héctor Cámpora. Rogers apparently lacks the rank to attend some of the diplomatic functions for Cámpora's inauguration this Friday; he has been shunted off to a Saturday luncheon served for lesser lights...
Corruption certainly exists, but it is important to make distinctions-between larger and lesser transgressions, between various motives and aims. The big city machines, forever symbolized by Boss Tweed, were rotten, but some also performed necessary social functions. The Teapot Dome affair of Harding's Administration, the freezer and coat giveaways of the Truman and Eisenhower eras, were corrupt acts based on organized greed, some massive, some relatively modest. Watergate is a far greater malignancy. These conspirators wanted to short-circuit the electoral and judicial processes, to rewrite the book on national security, to manipulate the standards of ethics...
...Vonnegut's strange and captivating system, not his conventionally liberal ideas or his stolidly workmanlike prose, that has made him one of the most popular ornaments of contemporary fiction; for his devices have allowed him to comment with sadness, affection and humor about absurdities that drive lesser men to mere frothing at the mouth and black rage...