Whew!

Whew! That’s a relief. For a while there it looked as though Mr. Nixon might have done something wrong at some point in the past. After all, it has been some while now since John Dean said all those rude things about Mr. Nixon. And it has been a while since we heard, on July 16, that Mr. Nixon had tapes of all those conversations with Mr. Dean. But all this while the White House has offered nothing but bald denials of what Mr. Dean said. That is, the White House has not offered taped proof that Mr. Dean lied in his sworn descriptions of the taped conversations.

But now Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the Senate Minority Leader, has declared that he knows the White House has evidence that proves Mr. Nixon is innocent of all wrongdoing. That’s a load off the nation’s mind.

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George F. Will

George F. Will has been a columnist, beginning with National Review, since 1973.

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Whew! That’s a relief. For a while there it looked as though Mr. Nixon might have done something wrong at some point in the past. After all, it has been some while now since John Dean said all those rude things about Mr. Nixon. And it has been a while since we heard, on July 16, that Mr. Nixon had tapes of all those conversations with Mr. Dean. But all this while the White House has offered nothing but bald denials of what Mr. Dean said. That is, the White House has not offered taped proof that Mr. Dean lied in his sworn descriptions of the taped conversations.

But now Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the Senate Minority Leader, has declared that he knows the White House has evidence that proves Mr. Nixon is innocent of all wrongdoing. That’s a load off the nation’s mind.