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Nixon eventually released the tapes to Cox’s successor, Leon Jaworski. The content of the tapes and the full results of Cox’s investigation were so damaging that Nixon stepped down as president on Aug. 8, 1974, becoming the only American president to resign from office. Cox was immediately embraced as a hero by Nixon’s foes...
APPOINTED. BERNARD CARDINAL LAW, by the Vatican, to become the archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. Cardinal Law was forced to resign in 2002 as head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston after numerous revelations of sexual abuse involving members of his clergy...
...failure to clarify this language, even after he was asked to by several commanders, led Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica to simply stay inside their barracks, rather than stop the Bosnian Serb military from massacring 7,000 Muslim refugees. Ultimately, the event forced the Dutch prime minister to resign his position in 2002 when a report was released assigning blame to the peacekeepers and the U.N. So why the impunity for Annan...
Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller was forced to apologize to Tiger Woods after cracking a racial joke. Denver Nuggets Coach Dan Issel was suspended for a racial slur against a Hispanic; Hispanic activists then campaigned to have him fired. Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., was forced to resign after his highly controversial accolades regarding the late Strom Thurmond. These are just some of the instances in which other minority groups have defied acts of racism. One writer of AsianWeek surmised, “If a white [basketball] player had, for instance, made monkey sounds to taunt a black player...
...scandal is not a matter of a few “bad apples,” but rather the fault of this entire executive branch. For these horrific acts and the cover-up that followed, we echo the call of others and ask Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign...