Volume 21, Number 3 · March 7, 1974
Can Nixon Afford to Resign?
By Alan B. Morrison
'I will not resign,' said President Nixon in his State of the Union Message. Last autumn I. F. Stone predicted in these pages that Nixon would take this position because resigning would force him to face the prospect of criminal prosecution.[*] This still holds true. But Stone did not mention that the President would also be forced to give up the enormously valuable free legal advice that he has been receiving during the past few months at the expense of the taxpayers.
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