GOP senators press Nixon on Watergate disclosure
Fifteen Republican senators urged full disclosure from President Nixon and discussed resignation or impeachment as options. Nixon promised to release all facts, but some senators said no private session was held with the Watergate panel.
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GOP
Nixon
Washington
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
Senate
Watergate Committee
Baker
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Bennett
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Norris Cotton
Dewey F. Bartlett
Oklahoma
Bartlett
New Mexico
Peter V. Domenici
John J. Sirica
Bill Brock
White House
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Domenici
John W. Dean III
Dean
Sen
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
Brooke
Senators Snub Alphabet Slices at Nixon Advising Session
Sen Norris Cotton says he stayed silent amid advice from 14 Republican senators during a Nixon briefing. He quips that the A’s through D’s do not represent the heaviest brains in the Senate as reporters note the alphabetic invitation.
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Washington
Norris Cotton
Rn.h
Nixon
Cotton
Senate
Senate Watergate panel hears top executives on corporate contributions
The Watergate committee opens public hearings with Orin E. Atkins of Ashland Oil, Russell DeYoung of Goodyear, and Harding L. Lawrence of Braniff Airways submitting to questions on illegal contributions to Nixon in 1972. Gulf Oil also pleads guilty and faces fines while officials testify on pressure and sources behind the funds.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon
Orin E. Atkins
Ashland Oil Co
Russell DeYoung
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Harding L. Lawrence
Braniff Airways
Lawrence
Braniff
Gulf Oil Corp
Gulf
Claude C. Wild Jr
Ashland
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Watergate Committee
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Wild
Atkins
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