Nixon aides report private talks as resignation calls mount
White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig met with Vice President Ford for an hour to discuss the crisis. Sources say resignation remains a possibility and that all options are open as pressure from Republicans and disclosures over Watergate mount.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Haig
Paul Miltich
Miltich
FBI
Congress
Gerald L. Warren
Warren
Camp David
Senate
Capitol Hill
House
Rhodes
Charles E. Wiggins
Calif
Los Angeles Times
Wiggins
James D. St. Clair
Key Role Seen for John Marsh
Detroit AP report says Ford aides plan for a possible White House transition with Marsh as a key player alongside Hartmann Laird Seidman and Buchen. Ford prepares on economics and foreign policy keeps Kissinger and Pentagon policy chiefs in close contact amid inflation focus.
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Detroit
Gerald R. Ford
Nixon
Detroit Free Press
Ford
White House
Free Press
Robert T. Hartmann
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
John Marsh
L. William Seidman
Grand Rapids
Philip Buchen
The
Henry A. Kissinger
Pentagon
Clarke County approves 482188 road budget and seeks Rt 761 work
Clarke County Board of Supervisors approved the State Department of Highways secondary road budget totaling 482 188 for maintenance and improvements with allocations for ordinary maintenance maintenance replacement and improvements. A petition for Rt 761 improvements was presented by Gladys Harbaugh. Superintendent Wade G Johnson reported test scores showing Clarke students generally below national averages with some higher grades near state levels.
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Berryville
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
State Dept. of Highways
Fred Altizer
Staunton
Gladys Harbaugh
Wade G. Johnson
Clarke County
Johnson
Clarke
Israeli air raids target guerrilla sites in southern Lebanon
Israeli jets hit suspected guerrilla targets in southern Lebanon twice in one day. Initial reports say 14 Lebanese villagers hospitalized as the strikes, the first since July 23, were retaliation for a frontier raid. The first raid near Hareira Junction lasted five minutes, with planes returning safely. a second afternoon strike reportedly brief per officials, witnesses placing bombs on Mt. Hermon eastern slopes in the Arkoub region amid ongoing cross border shelling.
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Lebanon
Hareira Junction
Mt. Hermon
Arkoub
Warren County Postpones $6.5 Million School Bond Referendum
Warren County Supervisors vote to delay action on a proposed 6.5 million school bond for a vocational high school. Some members urge lowering the amount or a two step program while others doubt voter support amid inflation and higher taxes. In Washington, Jake Jacobsen pleads guilty to bribery in a Watergate context, helping to drop seven charges against him.
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Susan Burke
Front Royal
Warren County Board of Supervisors
Elizabeth J. Malta
James S. Wetzel
Wetzel
George B. Baggarly
Washington
Texas
Jake Jacobsen
John B. Connally
Watergate Special Prosecution Force
Jacobsen
San Angelo
Tex
Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
U.S
George L. Hart Jr
Associated Milk Producers Inc
Handley High School unrest ties to racial tensions
Unrest at Winchester’s Handley High followed March 4 bulletin board vandalism and an April 17 suspension list of sixteen students eight of them black. Federal HEW investigators examined discriminatory practices as the district faced a civil action suit against administrators and teachers.
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Winchester
John Handley High School
Black History Week
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Jacob L. Johnson
Handley
George L. Craig Jr
Asst
Ronnie L. Bagnar
Handley High School
U.S. District Court
Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare
Dewey
Star
Dodds
Philadelphia
HEW
Office of Civil Rights
Frank Johnson
Harold Davis
Winchester Intermediate School
House Vote Seen Mere Formality in Nixon Impeachment
Washington AP reports Republicans including Minority Leader Rhodes and 10 Judiciary Committee members support impeachment, signaling a Senate trial and possible removal. Nixon’s disclosure of withheld evidence spurs calls for resignation and White House pressure despite Nixon’s stance against resigning.
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Washington
Nixon
House
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
Robert E. Bauman
Maryland
House Judiciary Committee
GOP senators weigh telling Nixon to resign amid impeachment risk
Senate Republicans debate sending a delegation to President Nixon after a lunch where leaders voiced majority anger and fear of a trial in the Senate. Hugh Scott says the party will meet to decide how to convey views as John Tower and Bob Dole signal growing support for resignation.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Hugh Scott
GOP
John G. Tower
R-Tex
Texas Republican
Robert Dole
R-Kan
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