Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Segretti operation was exposed by TIME and the Washington Post, Chapin quit the White House under pressure last January and took an executive job with United Air Lines. If found guilty, he could be jailed for as long as five years on each of four counts, and fined...
...change its investment patterns and to be more moral in its actions, we are asking ourselves the same things. Harvard can't be moral for us (that Harvard of the buildings, football teams, etc.), we have to be that way ourselves. If we tell Harvard to tell Gulf to quit exploiting foreign countries and suppressing people, we must face up to the fact that we are telling ourselves we must get along with lesser amounts of raw materials and products, and we must be moral in the distribution of the amounts we have left. If we insist that Harvard resist...
Fundamentally Opposed. Yet the President continued to carry on his seemingly risky attack upon the credibility of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, who had quit rather than carry out Nixon's orders to fire Prosecutor Cox. Nixon told the Governors that there was a "difference of 180°" between what Richardson had said publicly about opposing the firing of Cox and what he had told White House lawyers at the time. Strangely, the White House still insisted that Nixon was not accusing Richardson of having lied...
...content to give plenty of leeway to the staff of 80 people, including 38 lawyers, that he inherited from Archibald Cox. In fact, the staff has become an important force on its own in the struggle to get to the bottom of Watergate. Several key members are determined to quit if Jaworski does not continue to press ahead with the investigation...
...meantime, they keep playing. Thoughts of what to do if the group goes nowhere plague all, but they rarely discuss it. No one has set a time commitment of, say, two years before moving on. "If I quit, I guess I could do carpentry, or build speakers," Glenn says, "But I'm not planning...