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not charges of sufficient clarity or magnitude to persuade either Congress or the American people that impeachment is justified. But they surely, at least until answered, pose the greatest threat yet to Nixon's survival. For they are the work not of his traditional enemies, of a hostile press, of partisans attempting to overthrow his mandate, or any of the groups that the President has at various times accused of magnifying and distorting Watergate for their own vindictive ends. They are the considered judgment of 23 ordinary Americans who, if having examined the evidence and found cause for the probable guilt of Richard Nixon, may be very hard to answer.