In 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:
The Watergate affair had its faint origin in what was itself a trivial and foolish incident. But from this minor incident, Watergate has expanded on a scale that has plunged our country into what historians call a "crisis of the regime." [This] is a disorder, a trauma, involving every tissue...
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