“Lost in a morality play half its own invention, the media are once again in the old familiar position of not looking quite far enough beyond the end of their noses.”

“It’s Wednesday evening, the first of May, less than 48 hours after the President told his TV audience he wasn’t turning over tapes to the Judiciary Committee, subpoena or no subpoena.”

“Though the average voter may think impeachment means to remove the President from office and the average congressman may be puzzled by the apparent low constituent interest, once the indictments are out and the trail continues to lead to the Oval Office, a weed by any other name smells just as rancid.”

“Maybe if you’re lucky — if we’re all lucky — Nixon’ll just go away before it comes to that. It sure as hell would make me hap­py.”

Citizen pressures for impeachment are now forming along three different fronts

“In the impeachment of the President one of the articles charged him with ‘intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues’ in public addresses, tending to the harm of the government.”

“We all hope the guy is clean,” a Democratic aide said. “For the sake of the country, we hope he's clean. Partisanship disappears very fast in this sort of situation.”

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