Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans and our elected representatives are apathetic enough, Mr. Nixon will surely "put Watergate behind us." We will quit all this "disrespectful" talk of impeachment...
...stakes. Whatever his burden, he bears it with the same military stoicism he has always shown. When duty summons, he obeys, even if it is a crippled President who calls. "I intellectually concluded that I had no alternative but to come over here," he says of his decision to quit his post as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, subsequently, to resign from the Army. "It was a difficult decision in my stomach, but not in my head." He left the order of the military, where he knew what was expected of him, for the uncertainties...
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater is chairman of everybody's imaginary delegation of Republican elders who might some day call on Nixon and tell him to go. Goldwater has steadfastly declined the role, permitting himself some tart comment on Watergate but insisting that Nixon should not quit. Last week he was ominously quiet. In private, his aides said, he is despondent. "He thinks the situation is very, very grave," reported Tony Smith, his press secretary. "For a while he thought that profanity would be the major issue in the transcripts, but now he realizes it's more than that. The issue...
Before the week is out, Kleindienst is advising the President that Mitchell is certain to be indicted. The "big fish" has been hooked, and Nixon, Ehrlichman and Haldeman mistakenly assume that the Watergate probers will be satisfied and will quit casting for even bigger ones...
When he went to the Bundestag to say farewell to S.P.D. deputies, Brandt was greeted by roaring cheers and applause, and was given a bouquet of red roses. One of his closest aides collapsed into sobs. Brandt had threatened to quit many times before, but friends believe that his decision is now irrevocable. He intends, however, to remain chairman of the S.P.D. and to continue to speak out on political matters...