The Okie Legacy: 1973-Nixon Urged To Resign

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2017

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1973-Nixon Urged To Resign

Several newspapers across the nation had called for President Nixon to resign because of growing entanglements in the Water gate case, while others had challenged suggestions that the President was losing the ability to govern.

The New York Times even cited what it called "the visible disintegration of President Nixon's moral and political authority,"said Nixon should resign before the nation was forced to go through the traumatic and divisive process of impeachment.

Richard Nixon and the nation had passed a tragic point of no return. It then seemed likely that the president would have to give up his office. Nixon was irredeemably lost his moral authority, the confidence of most of the country, and therefore his ability to govern.

The New York Times said, "The deceitful manipulation of the presidential war-making powers, the deliberate violations of the law in the national security investigations and the abuse of the impoundment authority had all created in the minds of the people the enduring conviction that Mr. Nixon had little respect for the restraint of the law and no real understanding of constitutional checks and balances. [Does that sound familiar to our 2017 President Trump?]

The New Times also sated, "The one last great service that Mr. Nixon can now perform for his country is to resign... As long as he clings to office, he keeps the presidency swamped in a sea of scandal and the American public in a morass of concern and confusion."
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