| אף על פי שהפרישה פטרה את ניקסון מן ההאשמות הממשלתיות, עדיין עמדו בפניו האשמות פליליות | Johnson, a professor of journalism at , Secretary of State predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a great president and that Watergate would be relegated to a "minor footnote" |
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| Department of Justice wrote the court that it would not object to their release with some exceptions | בשלב ראשון ממליץ להקפיא ההצבעה |
Dean wanted to protect the president and have his four closest men take the fall for telling the truth.
| Nixon's own reaction to the break-in, at least initially, was one of skepticism | Barker's use of foreign banks in April and May 1972, to deposit checks and withdraw the funds via cashier's checks and money orders, resulted in the banks keeping the entire transaction records until October and November 1972 |
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| קבלת החנינה התפרשה על ידי הציבור כהודאה באשמה על אף העובדה כי ניקסון התמיד בטענה לחפותו | In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort |