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Watergate crisis grows for Nixon

Red Weekly No. 1, 1 May 1973 · p. 8 of the scan · 292 words

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page 8 of the scan

Last August, in reference to the burglary and bugging of the Democratic bational headquartersin Watergate, President Nixon asserted that:

No one in the White Houst staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, this very bizarre incident. last week his press secretary Ron Ziegler was forced to declare all previous White House statements on the Watergate affair as inoperaWhile Nixon himself remains untouched so far. closest aides his farmer Attorney General, and SUBSCRIBE!

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was involved in But some of lis like John Mitchell, - are now implicated in what promises to become the preatest scandal ever to hit ao American Under the impact of the Watergate affair, Nixon's Gallup rating has dropped 14 points in the last three months, at a time when the Ameri can ruling class as a whole faces its greatest crisis. Inextricably com mitted to the par in Indocbica, it faces a massive social crisis at home with inflation threatening to reach an annual rale of 10%, Even Georgd Meany, the notorious rightwing chief of the AFL-CIO trade union confederation, has been forced to tell his members, 'go out and get The crisis of the American capitalist class is now compounded by the crumbling authority of the Nixon administration. Either Watergate will be the end of Nixon, or he will have to engage in sore and more reuctionary policies and strengthen stilf more the apparatus of his regime te order to regain the contiMAY DAY GREETINGS to all friends and comrades past and present from Clarion's new centre in London. Park Hill, London S.W.4 1822 63791

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