"Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide."
Archibald Cox (on being fired)
With astonishing speed in a frantic Washington weekend, an effort by President Nixon to compromise in the battle for his tapes and to preserve the authority of his office crashed toward a fateful climax, leaving his survival in the Oval Office in grave doubt and pitching the nation into one of the gravest constitutional crises in its history. There were these stunning...