The Law: Stop the Impeachers

A RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH RICHARD M. NIXON, read the headline of a two-page ad in the May 31 issue of the New York Times. Though John Birchers did their poor best to get Earl Warren impeached, some people are still shocked by the thought of trying to do it to the President. Angry pressmen at the Times at first refused to run off the issue. The President sent a White House aide to thank them for their brief attempt at supererogatory censorship, and the Times received more than 400 letters from readers, most of whom condemned publication of the ad.

Among those...

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