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Editorial

By VVAW

With the escalation of his crimes it becomes increasingly important for all people to unite in calling for the removal of Richard Nixon from office. It has passed the point where Americans can sit back and let him remain as President of the United States; for what he continues to represent are the business interests and not the working people. His recent actions make this obvious. The most overriding issues of the day are the fuel 'crisis' and the job layoffs, and the government is doing nothing to solve them. Nixon represents that government.

A man representing the people would be taking swift action to insure all Americans the right to hold a job. But Nixon cannot do this for he is incapable of solving anything. Rather than tackle the problem of unemployment and job layoffs, he stands back and accepts the big corporations' cure-all -- 100,000 layoffs in December alone, with predictions of 8% unemployment in 1974. Rather than secure a reasonable price for gasoline and heating oil, he is refusing to surrender Watergate documents to the Senate committee. Rather than hold down the price of milk and bread, (so to reach $1 per loaf?), he tries to explain away his 'gift' to the American people of his vice-presidential papers; a gift that made him pay less taxes than the great majority of the American working people. Rather than promoting peace and freedom, he continues to support dictatorial regimes around the world.

Nixon merely represents what is wrong with American society. Kicking him out of office will not solve any of these problems. Someone else will take his place. But it is important that he be thrown out; important in that it will show the businessmen and the corporate dictators that we, the American people, are fed up with their profits over our well-being. In order to keep our jobs, our homes and our freedom, it is vital that we unite and work together to

KICK NIXON OUT

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