This is the time of the aftershock.
Events of the Agnew magnitude produce momentary political paralysis and anguish. Then comes the time of reflection and clarification; and then the aftershock, when people see they have been right or wrong and decide how they feel.
Richard Nixon stands nearer his own resignation or impeachment than ever before. How near is the unanswerable question. But the sense of the men in the White House that they have now resolved part of their tortuous problem is false. It is one of those singular illusions that result from their isolation.
The country has been morally ravaged....
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