Could Watergate turn into a festering & debilitating millstone around Nixon's neck even if he were to:
fire John Mitchell and Gordon Liddy from his re-election campaign (CRP) on June 20, 1972 after learning of the break in at the DNC's Watergate Building headquarters (tapes can come out a year or so later showing how he waffled and contemplated a cover-up)? Cooperating with and giving public support to Att. Gen. Richard Kleindienst's investigation of it is going to drive him bonkers, and sooner or later (around election time) he's going to have to fire John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. If he wins re-election, he's going to have to still deal w/Agnew and if/when Agnew resigns, Connolly will not be an acceptable successor in the eyes of the Democratic controlled Congress.
fire John Mitchell and Gordon Liddy from his re-election campaign (CRP) on June 20, 1972 after learning of the break in at the DNC's Watergate Building headquarters (tapes can come out a year or so later showing how he waffled and contemplated a cover-up)? Cooperating with and giving public support to Att. Gen. Richard Kleindienst's investigation of it is going to drive him bonkers, and sooner or later (around election time) he's going to have to fire John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. If he wins re-election, he's going to have to still deal w/Agnew and if/when Agnew resigns, Connolly will not be an acceptable successor in the eyes of the Democratic controlled Congress.