Word: quits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support what I believe to be in the best interests of my country," says Humphrey. "That is why I support the President. If I felt I could not, I would either keep silent or I would resign." (The only Vice President who quit was John C. Calhoun, who left the Jackson Administration in 1832 to battle for states' rights in the Senate...
Former Under Secretary of State George W. Ball was the Administration's most articulate war critic when he quit Washington for Wall Street in 1966. Candidly calling himself "the devil's advocate," he persistently opposed deepening the U.S. involvement in what he terms the Vietnamese "gluepot." Far more Europe-minded than his friend Dean Rusk, Ball believes that by making Viet Nam a major battleground with the Communists, the U.S. has failed to cope adequately with De Gaulle, jeopardized any new approach to China, and let the problem of a divided Germany fester far too long...
...great educator became so infuriated with what he called the licentious, outrageous and disgraceful behavior of students at his college that he quit in disgust. The college was at Carthage, the year was A.D. 383, and the dismayed teacher, as he relates in Confessions, was St. Augustine. Sometimes students can try the patience of a saint...
...Society was notified that "a towardly lad and apt witt for a scholler" had entered the Indian College. This was John Wampus, a Nipmuc Sagamore, who quit before the year was out and spent the next few years in and out of jail for debt and drunkenness. He later settled down as a roving realtor in Massachusetts, and managed to sell the entire township of Sutton--which...
...first time since his Senate days, Humphrey can mark out his position clearly, and his vantage point is in the party's center. And he promised to hold out there. "I don't intend to quit," he said, "as long as there is one ounce of strength left in my body...