Sandusky Register (Newspaper) - August 9, 1974, Sandusky, Ohio PAGE - SANDUSKY REGISTER - AUG. 9, 1974 In The Reaction Was Compassion In the it didn't play in But when it stopped - when President Richard Nixon announced his resignation - the public reaction among 42 Sandusky area and probably the rest of the country - was a mixture of compassion and Those contacted Thursday night expressed many other and many mixed am glad to see the thing come to an said Stephen Hargrove took a pretty big man to come out and say he was wrong - but it took him long enough to do it. Didn't Nixon should be said set an example for those other people in Here is what other Mrs. Lawrence 423 Franklin feel very sorry for He did the only thing he could do and not get which would have been a terrible I think he believes he lost all his I think the man is a but had lost all his I feel sorry for am rather said Mrs. Charles 125 Forty-second I really don't think he was He didn't do anything that bad to be I thought he was a big man to be able to say he had no hope they use because in the field of foreign he cannot be According to Mrs. Cyril 805 John don't feel one way or the other about it. I don't know if he was guilty or They may just get somebody in there who may be Mrs. John 2521 W. Strub Rd. said think it should have think he was I feel very sorry for the family and for I don't think a man could do what he did and stay in thought his speech was very He was not critical of He did not say that much about it was very but it is very It is a terrible thing that had to happen to our but I don't think there will be any our democratic everything just don't know what to stated an anonymous just feel very sorry for Danny 327' 2 McDonough Mrs. M.L. 1211 Central am saddened and I have a lot of compassion for the I am glad he resigned rather than stand I think he has done a lot for the but the evidence seems to indicate he Questioned about I am quite with was a good John 1102 W. Adams for the good of the I'm glad Of Gerald Ford's ascension to the Calabria think he'll have the country behind he Mrs. Charles 607 N. Depot think he did the right Of Gerald she seems like he might be all It'll take time to Ival 903 Thorpe seems to be he said of stating honesty is of prime didn't say too much about taking the blame for what has did asked Mrs. Michael 2805 Pease it's kinda she but she added she thought Nixon should have been Clarence 413 Scott he expected can't really say I haven't really heard too much of what he has Mrs. Earl 1005 W. Strub think it more or less brings things to a I guess it was probably the best thing I think the American people were expecting it. don't have any feelings she seems to be an honest I think this is what people are looking for Hopefully he can do a good He's certainly had enough experience in Saying she was glad the president had resigned rather than letting impeachment drag she one time I thought it should go the whole but after the way they dragged out the whole Watergate maybe it's best this way to save the time and get on to things more important to the thought it was stated Mrs. George 1706 Willow But there was no other Af ter the last week i t wa s i to go must say I was for she it just got to be too much to It's certainly better than to go on for another six think he's got what he 1409 Clinton St. think he'll he more happy than he's been in a long Mrs. Rosemary 5103 Schenk was little bit but think maybe it's the best she the country can back to problems we need to I hope they can find some way to prevent this thing from happening glad of stated Mrs. William 2146 think he should get 11's better for everyone a said Vincent 4613 Galloway Rd. hate to see even if he's a said Esposito country is at a Mr. Ford takes we can start moving I always said he would resign to be Richie 222'/2 Shelby I don't know - he shouldn't have He thought it was a very said one unidentified but - don't think he related in any shape or form to I don't see how he had any other choice Mrs. John 2814 Park was disappointed in the president's very disheartened about the whole thing - What was done has been done in the past and it will be done in the Only there will be more security to cover it Of she I think it FBI agents checked him so I guess he must be He has the confidence of Returning to Mrs. Decker thinks he has done the right but I would have But I don't have the strength he think he will be President Nixon did an awful lot in foreign affairs and people just aren't looking at anything but Watergate right think it will come out in time I think a lot of people are behind men with power and who are trying to tear democracy has been I she feel sorry for said Mrs. Lena 1417 E. Perkins who added she thinks he was She she really didn't know what to think of the whole Mrs. Joseph 609 Thorpe don't It got to the point where I was so thoroughly When a normal person breaks the he goes to When a poor person does he gets any old lawyer thrown a t but Nixon had the She he'd just told what he released the it would have been About the convictions of White House she just like a pack of crooks living in one A woman who refused to give her name feel sorry for his They wanted him to resign and that's what he Pat 1105 Erie feel it's a tragedy this had to He was courageous during his I hope President Ford can bring the country back John 3230 Venice a very poor situation for the U.S. to be in. Despite a couple of people have forgotten the good s He My main question wha t happens now with our image to other should have impeached He's getting off too said Mrs. Leland Wuertz 517CampSt. Mrs. Fred 706 Buckingham feel kind of sad about the whole for his sake and for the but I think he did the right I don't know why he waited so long to do Stan 1016 W. Monroe the only way to get the country people lost It's the only way to solve our domestic glad it happened but I think they should go on with the I'm glad it's over said Mrs. William 2005 Hayes Ave. Mrs. Fa ye 608 Carroll we don't know what he We won't know How much he did how much he is holding or what the tapes He'd lose his pension if they went through with she really resigned to save his One man who declined to give his name didn't think the wording was His speech writers beat around the bush with those other issues ra ther than get to the main i Mrs. Melvin 1429 Harrison glad he Echoing that sentiment was Mrs. Jeffrey 325E. who glad to hear he's definitely was commented Mrs. E. A. 1004 Vine St. glad we have a man like Ford to take over the reins I don't think he should be prosecuted - he's been persecuted I'm glad he's He done it a long time said Tom 2247 Remington Ave. hope Ford does pretty Acceptance - and possibly bitterness - set the tone of responses from two individuals who did not give their think it's probably the only thing he could under the said asked if she could say how she But I'm not going City Reacts No No No No Greaf Expectations By LOU FILARDO Staff Writer The bartender wasn't too thrilled about the whole you'll be carrying the Nixon hewas but not that we want Fourteen men and two women were sitting around his 15 minutes before the almost all of them young and most of them staring up at the seat beaming back the Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid in In the back section of the another dozen persons were waiting for their orders or already As the newsmen spoke out of the a girl at the bar was talking to the guy she was feel sorry for the she Nobody else had much to say as they were talked at by the figures on the screen placed between statue awards on shelves high above the From the faces furthest from the set the conversation was not about the At eight minutes to Roger Mudd was talking about immunity for the two girls came to wait for an order to and the guy with the girl turned to the reporter to Ford appoint a vice Assured Ford the guy nodded Of course he his nod After Cronkite filled the last five minutes before the the murmuring around the bar stopped and the very familiar image came on the Nobody in the back half of the bar left their seats for a closer look at While Nixon was talking about the importance of continuity in foreign the bartender kept striding around his trying to tune the words you believe all that he asked one of the Towards the end of the 16-minute the bartender looked up at the screen and said As soon as it was the bartender switched on a radio under the TV set and listened hard to the ball game and not at all to the Terry 22, 630 Shelby was sitting close to the radio and talked in a very low just kind of expected he probably had to do it. He had no leeway to get out of it. He did a lot of He didn't say anything people didn't was cautious in his assessment of President remains to be It's a challenge for Other countries are going to Out on the streets of reactions were The Evans family from Ohio said they were dyed-in-the-wool Republicans just back from a camping They hadn't seen yesterday's Oren Evans was little hard to I didn't think he would have to I thought they'd have to impeach He didn't play too much politics when he was Evans said he didn't know much about it'll let Congress get back to something Evans His was even more he folded it I can't believe She was disappointed about having missed the probably won't run it she said to her family as they walked off in the A group of people moving across the Washington Row park strip were silent at the first mention of the think it's a blow to the a young woman in the group think we should all feel sorry the group was quick to echo the feelings of an elderly man with them about Ford's the man Then his face brightened can work well with both A group of young people sitting along the grass lining Washington Row were less charitable in their a one of them said of the President's should of got This way he gets his They were joined by two more young thought he was going to cry until they put that shield in front of his one of the newcomers He meant the seal of the office of the United States which the cameras had focused on at the end of the of had spoken from behind the podium to which the seal is always attached for public Presidential After a few more questions and a few the reporter started walking away when one of the group called trying to get him back On Market it was 10 minutes to 10, and there were no street corner discussions over the There was nobody on the street Two young spotted idling eastward on Market were damn one of them they had all the they should of socked i t to he He emphatic about don't think he can handle the I've been reading up on this following it on TV and I think Wallace would be a better man for the A middle-aged woman outside the State Cinema theater said she had no comment until she was told it wasn't necessary for her to give her think he should have done so a long time If he could of admitted it he would of been she said Asked about she said she A middle-aged man wandering across Water Street said he thought Nixon's resignation was were going to put him in so much I don't think Ford will make a very good President but he'll be better than Another middle-aged man wandering across Columbus Avenue towards Bar think it's the best thing he could It was too much against Asked about President he think he'll make it through if he doesn't get into From her lonely post inside the ticket booth at the Cedar Point Ferry embarkation middle-aged woman feel sad about it. just can't explain the It frightens me a She has no feelings one way or the other about she but she was sad over the office of the Three middle-aged women getting into a car on Water Street paused long enough tc resigned a long time one of them But another said knows what other Presidents di d before The other women were quick to nod Return Of Trust Predicted COLUMBUS - The resignation of Richard Nixon as President of the United States was long but now that It Is a Americans can a sigh of the chairman of the Ohio State University Political Science Department said had put himself In a position where he literally could expect support from no said Dr. Randall just on the narrow Issue of but on By admitting he had been lying to including his closest for over two I think he created a climate from which no one from the most staunch Republican to the farthest left Democrat was left with any reason to trust him on much of president In that kind of position is useless and the Ripley Ripley dismissed the argument by some persons that as compared with would leave many details about Watergate and the think the facts will continue to be Ripley special prosecutor and the courts will continue to keep I think a national consensus in fact developed prior to the resignation that he should that he could not be trusted and the amount of obstruction of justice was so significant that he had to 'The manner of his going is not important compared with the resuscitation of government which has lost the trust of the Ripley year ago impeachment would have been the far better but now almost the reverse is With rumors of the stock market had gone up only to come down when investors thought he wasn't going to Resignation may not be a cure for our economic but it sure isn't going to have an adverse will heave a sigh of relief now that the ordeal of Richard Nixon is over and a new who at least on the to be honest and has taken Trust in government will go up terms of foreign obviously this is where there is some cause for Ripley has had some genuine accomplishments in that area as Secretary of State Kissinger said the nation's foreign policy will be pursued as it has any I think foreign governments are used to dealing with other governments in which power changes occur at unexpected so I don't think the resignation will have any great Ripley said public trust and respect of government has been declining over the past few years and he said he believed very low trust in government would continue for the near only thing now that will turn us out of the trough of public trust is if inflation begins to come under control and unemployment comes down and if President or begins to appear willing to confront national problems with new and strong am afraid there will be some portion of the public and who will simply dismiss Nixon as an saying 'The system worked and it won't happen again and if it does we will catch said much too glib an explanation for the whole Watergate affair in which the number of either high crimes or misdemeanors or near high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Nixon and top people is can understand some people feeling that way because some people are uncomfortable with he would explain the person who has been against impeachment or resignation regardless of the facts that have been uncovered as In a bastard and has misused but at least he's our bastard and we know where he has had genuine achievements and we are more comfortable with a known quality than with an unknown guess is such people who are still opposed to the resignation and who were opposed to an impeachment trial are persons not very politically A lot of them probably don't don't read much and are not at all politically I think good will come of Watergate if Congress will become more aggressive in the use of its bad will result if a large part of the public and elected and appointed officials simply say now we can go back to business as must ponder some of the broader implications of If we then I think the whole agony and ordeal and the lessons could 1)�V9 learned will be utterly will have simply had 9 miss with a car and we won't learn from it - and that be
