camp. wiggins was the strongest and most outspoken and most compelling supporter of nixon on the judiciary committee. right? congressman wiggins voted no on all five of the impeachment articles that they considered against nixon. he led the nixon camp in the judiciary committee. he led the republican resistance to the impeachment, but even he when faced with this new incon tree veritable evidence about what nixon had done, he too decided that nixon had to go. it actually made the front page of the new york times the next day. wiggins wasn t in leadership or anything. it wasn t like a you know, it wasn t speaker of the house or something. but i mean, talk about a day in which you want to buy the paper, right? this was august 6th, 1974. you see the banner headline there, nixon admits order to halt inquiry on watergate six days after break-in, expects impeachment. support ebbs. the upper right-hand column
compelling supporter of nixon on the judiciary committee. right, congressman wiggins voted no on all five of the impeachment articles that they considered against nixon. he led the nixon camp in the judiciary committee. he led the republican resistance to the impeachment. but even he when faced with this new incontrovertible evidence he decided he too must go. wiggins wasn t like in leadership or something. he wasn t speaker of the house or something. but i mean talk about a day in which you want to buy the paper, right? this was august 6, 1974, you see the banner headline there. nixon admits order to halt inquiry on watergate 6 days after break in. expects impeachment, support ebbs. and the verbatim copy of nixon s
inquiry on watergate 6 days after break in. expects impeachment, support ebbs. see the upper right-hand column there, tapes released. there s two big fat columns there in the middle of the front page, the verbatim copy of nixon s statement about the disclosure of the tapes. but then also there above the fold, i mean next to the picture of the democratic leader tip o neil, there s this back bench california congressman charles wiggins with his incredible head of hair, right? and he gets his own headline on the front page of the new york times that day specifically because he s the epitome of the staunch republican defender of nixon. he gets his own headline on the front page. wiggins for impeachment, others in gop join him. front page of the new york times tuesday, august 6th. by the end of that week nixon was gone. that was the tuesday paper i