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Further breaks in the ranks: Liberal Republican Senator Clifford Case (N.J.) says if the impeachment proceedings are too prolonged the President should resign. Senator Charles Percy has reiterated his somewhat roundabout call for resignation, and Governor Mills Godwin of Virginia (the first Republican to be elected governor of Virginia since Reconstruction) has made a muted call for impeachment because it “might be the only answer to the crisis of leadership” in the country. William Barnstead of Massachusetts has become the first state GOP chairman to urge Nixon to resign. He came to the decision reluctantly, says Barnstead, after the Traxler election in Michigan. “My job is to rebuild the Republican Party in this state and it can’t be done so long as Richard Nixon is in the White House.” The Evans & Novak newsletter (April 17) reported that chief White House counsel James St. Clair had not, to that time, been permitted to see or listen to some of the key March-April 1973 tapes Chairman Rodino’s committee wants.

A Christian Science Monitor poll of Republican state chairmen and national committeemen/women (88 answered) shows Ronald Reagan as their favored candidate for ’76. Reagan got 25 votes, Ford 22, Rockefeller 19, Connally 11. Others mentioned: Elliot Richardson, Senators Howard Baker and Charles Percy, National Chairman George Bush, and Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar.On the Democratic side the State House of Representatives in Washington has passed a proposal that would permit Senator Henry Jackson to run for the Presidency or Vice Presidency in 1976 and still seek reelection to his Senate seat.The AFL-CIO COPE of six Western states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Hawaii) has come out for the defeat of Republican Senator Robert Packwood (Ore.) he voted against labor-approved legislation nine out of 11 times. COPE voted to endorse and presumably help fund the reelection campaigns of Democrats Mike Gravel (Alaska), Warren Magnuson (Wash.), and Frank Church (Idaho) The fact that the Texas COPE will not endorse either candidate in the hot Democratic gubernatorial race May 7 between Governor Dolph Briscoe and liberal feminist Sissie Farenthold is regarded locally as a tactical victory for Mrs. Farenthold Sportscaster Howard Cosell, announcing that “there are not ten people in the United States better qualified to run for the Senate than Howard Cosell,” said he might run for Senator Buckley’s seat in ’76. Buckley would “like to see the other nine people on his list.”

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Further breaks in the ranks: Liberal Republican Senator Clifford Case (N.J.) says if the impeachment proceedings are too prolonged the President should resign. Senator Charles Percy has reiterated his somewhat roundabout call for resignation, and Governor Mills Godwin of Virginia (the first Republican to be elected governor of Virginia since Reconstruction) has made a muted call for impeachment because it “might be the only answer to the crisis of leadership” in the country. William Barnstead of Massachusetts has become the first state GOP chairman to urge Nixon to resign. He came to the decision reluctantly, says Barnstead, after the Traxler election in Michigan. “My job is to rebuild the Republican Party in this state and it can’t be done so long as Richard Nixon is in the White House.” The Evans & Novak newsletter (April 17) reported that chief White House counsel James St. Clair had not, to that time, been permitted to see or listen to some of the key March-April 1973 tapes Chairman Rodino’s committee wants.

A Christian Science Monitor poll of Republican state chairmen and national committeemen/women (88 answered) shows Ronald Reagan as their favored candidate for ’76. Reagan got 25 votes, Ford 22, Rockefeller 19, Connally 11. Others mentioned: Elliot Richardson, Senators Howard Baker and Charles Percy, National Chairman George Bush, and Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar.On the Democratic side the State House of Representatives in Washington has passed a proposal that would permit Senator Henry Jackson to run for the Presidency or Vice Presidency in 1976 and still seek reelection to his Senate seat.The AFL-CIO COPE of six Western states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Hawaii) has come out for the defeat of Republican Senator Robert Packwood (Ore.) he voted against labor-approved legislation nine out of 11 times. COPE voted to endorse and presumably help fund the reelection campaigns of Democrats Mike Gravel (Alaska), Warren Magnuson (Wash.), and Frank Church (Idaho) The fact that the Texas COPE will not endorse either candidate in the hot Democratic gubernatorial race May 7 between Governor Dolph Briscoe and liberal feminist Sissie Farenthold is regarded locally as a tactical victory for Mrs. Farenthold Sportscaster Howard Cosell, announcing that “there are not ten people in the United States better qualified to run for the Senate than Howard Cosell,” said he might run for Senator Buckley’s seat in ’76. Buckley would “like to see the other nine people on his list.”