New York, April 4—Even the water buffalo and the springbok in Africa were talking about the startling recommendation of the tormented junior senator from New York, that Richard Nixon resign the Presidency pro bono publico. Returning from abroad, and examining the response to his suggestion, one is struck by a number of misunderstandings which appear to have become institutionalized in American thought, not only among conservatives, but among liberals as well.
Most of them, in my judgment, are explicitly or inexplicitly incorporated in a two-sentence statement by a Republican congressman from Tennessee, Mr. Dan Kuykendall. He is quoted as saying: “Senator Buckley’s proposal is most dangerous as it would affect the Republic in its operations. His willingness to see a man forced out of office without proof of impeachable conduct shows a lack of understanding as to how this Republic was formed and how it operates.”
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