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voluntary resignation as president of the united states. conservative republican senator james buckley of new york. you can tell even from the complimentary language he used towards nixon as he was calling for nixon s resignation that buckley represented a very pro-nixon part of the republican party. it took a very long time for people like that to start speaking out in light of the watergate scandal. buckley made those remarks in march, 1974. by april, the white house tapes has been subpoenaed. by may, impeachment hearings started in the house. the supreme court ordered the release of the tapes. by early august, nixon was gone. presidents in crisis are presidents doing a very bad job. getting criticized by members of their own party because of it, that s not unheard of in american politics, but when it comes to serving senators of a president s own party, the senator in question usually has to be a bit of an outlier himself or the president himself needs to be teetering on the edge

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