Letters, Feb. 18, 1974

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Should Nixon Quit?

Sir / History has a way of clearing leaders like President Nixon after all the verbal and printed mud of trivialities sinks to the bottom of the pool and the clear water of truth and performance again appears at the top. My only disappointment in the President will come if he ever resigns, or permits impeachment, without a fight.

J.A. FENDT Haddonfield, N.J.

Sir / With all due respect, I must say that Richard Nixon has insulted our intelligence, destroyed our faith, curdled our spirit, and turned politics into pornography. The only great service he can perform for this country is to resign.

RICHARD RYNEN Madison, Wis.

Sir / By the time those chickens get around to impeaching the President, it will be so anticlimactic that I expect we'll hear about it in between sports and the weather.

JOAN MARGALITH Poland Spring, Me.

Sir / As I listen to and read the comments offered by the liberal and crypto-liberal television, newspaper and newsmagazine reporters, savoring every rumor, fact, suspicion and information from a reliable source with regard to the dilemma faced by the present Administration, it occurs to me that there has not been this much anticipatory chop licking since Daniel spent an uncomfortable afternoon in the lions' den.

(MRS.) MARION C. SCHNEIDER Dayton

Sir / It amazes me that people can blame the news media for Watergate. As long as there is more to be learned, only the President can be blamed for the strain on our country's health that Watergate has become. Nixon has not been willing to accept the responsibility for errors and wrongdoing within his organization. He is the one who has kept Watergate in the news.

KATHLEEN KRIDER Colby, Kans.

Sir / Take a good hard look at the picture of our dear President [Jan. 28]. and see how you are helping to destroy the life of a good man. If there are any Christians on your staff contributing to his dilemma, may God forgive them.

(MRS.) REBECCA BARRAGATO Farmington Hills, Mich.

Sir / Congress is faced with a simple fact: the 18-minute gap in the White House tape speaks more eloquently of the President's corruption than could the missing words themselves.

WILLIAM YOUNG Aachen, West Germany

Sir / I am stunned by the case of the Watergate tapes. How can ... expect us to believe that five separate ... wiping out important ... in the President's ... not the result of deliberate tampering? It's enough to make one ...

JEFFREY SMITH Mundelein, 111.

Left Hanging

Sir / I've got to know what was on that slip of paper burned by the Secretary of Hope in your Essay. "Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Strange Erasures" [Jan. 28]. I examined every line, parsed every sentence, even looked for clues by using the first letter in consecutive words.

It isn't fair. Doyle would never have left us hanging in midair, slowly twisting in the wind! I'll never read Sherlock Holmes by Kanfer again.

SYBIL H. CLAYS Granger, Utah

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