Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of selective memory will set in among hard-core Nixon supporters, a feeling that the case was never clearly judged, that Nixon martyred himself for the good of the nation. But the case against Nixon was so clear that most of his supporters had deserted him before he quit; he was in effect judged by his own friends and allies in the Congress. It should be sufficiently obvious to history that Nixon was not driven from office but resigned because he was guilty of, at least, obstruction of justice, and his cause was hopeless. Some diehards, of course, will...
...courage seemed to be much on his mind in his last hours, describing how the young T.R. thought his life was over after the death of his first wife. Instead, Nixon pointed out, it was only beginning, because Roosevelt, despite his sorrow, was too much of a man to quit. "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you," Nixon said pointedly, "but the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks and some disappointments, when sadness comes." Like much else in the speech, the point of his analogy was not clear when...
Nixon's first two IRS commissioners both felt so strongly about the White House pressure that they threatened to quit rather than carry out the orders of his aides. The first, Randolph W. Thrower, objected in 1970 to one White House scheme on the ground that it might create "a personal police force" within IRS. His successor, Johnnie M. Walters, protested late in 1972 that another White House proposal would have been "disastrous for IRS and for the Administration and would make the Watergate affair look like a Sunday-school picnic." Obviously out of favor with the President, both commissioners...
...told Walters: "I'm goddam tired of your foot-dragging tactics." Reported Walters to the Judiciary Committee: "I was offended and very upset .. . Following the telephone conversation, I told Secretary Shultz that he could have my job any time he wanted it." Though Shultz wanted him to stay, Walters quit on April...
Soon after Britain's Dr. Douglas Bevis (see story above) abruptly quit his work on fertilization-implantation techniques, eleven eminent U.S. investigators, including one Nobel laureate, Dr. James D. Watson, declared that they are halting certain experiments in genetic manipulation of bacteria. Their reason: fear that if they do not stop, they may inadvertently loose upon the world new forms of life-semisynthetic organisms that could cause epidemics, or resist control by antibiotics, or increase the incidence of cancer...