The Nation: More Evidence: Huge Case for Judgment

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That appears to be true because two commissioners threatened to resign rather than yield, although it is not at all certain that they felt that the President was unaware of the efforts of his aides.

In the introduction to his brief, St. Clair made a magnanimous-sounding offer to the Judiciary Committee: "Should the committee desire any additional submissions, the special counsel to the President would welcome the opportunity to respond to any particular request." That gesture seemed a bit odd, considering that Nixon has refused to comply with no fewer than eight subpoenas from the committee for the submission of 147 tape recordings of presidential conversations.

^{* On May 9, 1969, the New York Times published an article by William Beecher on the series of secret B-52 bombing raids on Cambodia.}