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Politics : Should Clinton resign? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James A. Shankland who wrote (388)	9/15/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 567

Forget resignation. It is not your right to demand. It is not the right of 99% of the American people to demand. (Although in fact a majority do not want this President to resign.) The Constitution lays out your rights and the President's. They do not include demanding resignation. They do include proceeding through impeachment. Only one President in our history has resigned. He did so only when it had become abundantly clear that he would loose in a vote in the Senate by a huge majority, and perhaps even unanimously. It was leaders of his own party that delivered this message. But to conclude that he resigned because his party had lost confidence in him is to misread history. He resigned because he knew he didn't have a chance, and he thought could retain some shred of dignity by taking action himself. He may also have hoped that his chances of being pardoned were enhanced. Doug