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A poll of the 18 Republican governors in Seattle last week found only one, retiring Gov TomMcCall of Oregon, in favor of President Nixon’s resignation (“he should not put us through the agony of impeachment and trial”). The other 17 opted for the impeachment route.Editorials on File (it’s a magazine) shows 32 of the nation’s leading 125 newspapers (that’s one quarter) favoring the President’s resignation; 15 have come out for impeachment.A National Observer poll of its own largely business-oriented readers brought in nearly 20,000 responses: 58.5 per cent said the Watergate controversy should be settled by a House vote clearing Nixon; 41.5 per cent felt the House should vote impeachment and send Nixon to Senate trial. … A brand new Washington Post survey shows the Senate would fail to impeach Nixon at this time by a margin of 12 to 17 votes, but the survey also finds a slippage in the Nixon forces of five to ten votes in the last couple of months.Sen. Robert Byrd (W. Va.), the Democratic Whip, says that if it looks as if the vote won’t come until late October he would favor postponing it rather than -have it put “undesirable and unfair pressure” on senators running for reelection. … It is the opinion of Evans & Novak that the various timetables for impeachment are about “as reliable as the Long Island Railroad.” . Art Buchwald, speaker at the Holy Cross College commencement (Buchwald admits he worships “the quicksand” Nixon walks on), told the graduates that a stenographer can only get a job in Washington these days if she “can erase 120 words a minute.”

Major split developing on the Hill over wisdom of Nixon’s Moscow trip. Senate Majority and Minority Leaders Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott favor the Summit as does Sen. Edward Kennedy (“[the anti-Summit drive] is simplistic and dangerous”).But Sen. Edward Brooke (R., Mass.) joins Sen. James Buckley in feeling that the Kremlin might, in Brooke’s words, “seek undue advantage of a weakened President who desperately needs a dramatic gesture to counterbalance his political liabilities.” The well informed Aviation Week & Space Technology reports that the Soviets are demanding “the scrapping of the B-l supersonic bomber, the Trident SLBM and a rollback of current Navy carrierbased and United States Air Force strike aircraft equipped with nuclear weapons” as the price for future negotiations on limitation of strategic arms.

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A poll of the 18 Republican governors in Seattle last week found only one, retiring Gov TomMcCall of Oregon, in favor of President Nixon’s resignation (“he should not put us through the agony of impeachment and trial”). The other 17 opted for the impeachment route.Editorials on File (it’s a magazine) shows 32 of the nation’s leading 125 newspapers (that’s one quarter) favoring the President’s resignation; 15 have come out for impeachment.A National Observer poll of its own largely business-oriented readers brought in nearly 20,000 responses: 58.5 per cent said the Watergate controversy should be settled by a House vote clearing Nixon; 41.5 per cent felt the House should vote impeachment and send Nixon to Senate trial. … A brand new Washington Post survey shows the Senate would fail to impeach Nixon at this time by a margin of 12 to 17 votes, but the survey also finds a slippage in the Nixon forces of five to ten votes in the last couple of months.Sen. Robert Byrd (W. Va.), the Democratic Whip, says that if it looks as if the vote won’t come until late October he would favor postponing it rather than -have it put “undesirable and unfair pressure” on senators running for reelection. … It is the opinion of Evans & Novak that the various timetables for impeachment are about “as reliable as the Long Island Railroad.” . Art Buchwald, speaker at the Holy Cross College commencement (Buchwald admits he worships “the quicksand” Nixon walks on), told the graduates that a stenographer can only get a job in Washington these days if she “can erase 120 words a minute.”

Major split developing on the Hill over wisdom of Nixon’s Moscow trip. Senate Majority and Minority Leaders Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott favor the Summit as does Sen. Edward Kennedy (“[the anti-Summit drive] is simplistic and dangerous”).But Sen. Edward Brooke (R., Mass.) joins Sen. James Buckley in feeling that the Kremlin might, in Brooke’s words, “seek undue advantage of a weakened President who desperately needs a dramatic gesture to counterbalance his political liabilities.” The well informed Aviation Week & Space Technology reports that the Soviets are demanding “the scrapping of the B-l supersonic bomber, the Trident SLBM and a rollback of current Navy carrierbased and United States Air Force strike aircraft equipped with nuclear weapons” as the price for future negotiations on limitation of strategic arms.