When a Nixon supporter balked, Buchanan held firm.
Nixon supporters claimed that Shell partisans sat out the gubernatorial contest and enabled Brown to win a second term.
"Nixon supporter and future pundit John McLaughlin on Today show," he wrote in one typical memo.
The town meeting attracted a packed crowd of over a thousand, with Nixon supporters distributing anti-Voorhis literature at the door.
He reportedly approached her in the cafeteria and asked, "Are you a Humphrey or a Nixon supporter?"
Smith's statement following the Saturday Night Massacre that "no man is above the law" drew national headlines and the ire of Nixon supporters.
Vilsack approached Bell and asked, "Are you a Humphrey or a Nixon supporter?"
"She was a redhead, and fun," recalled Herb Klein, an early Nixon supporter who later became White House communications director.
In addition, many Nixon supporters felt that pardoning Nixon was akin to admitting he was guilty.
Peyser was a staunch Nixon supporter and backed his Vietnam War policies.