Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stepped up into the capriciously loose banking habits of Bert Lance, the amiable Georgian who directs the Office of Management and Budget. Each day brought torrents of new allegations, rumors of wrongdoing, hints of still more probes. Inevitably, reports surfaced that Jimmy Carter has reluctantly concluded that Lance must resign. Before long, perhaps before this week is out, one of the President's first major appointees is likely to become the Carter Administration' first major casualty...
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When Bert Lance made a long-scheduled appearance at the Southern Governors Conference in San Antonio last week, it was inevitable that someone would ask him the question: Was he going to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island...
...Lance has given no thought to the question of resigning-and that is difficult to believe-there are quite a few people who obviously have. Pressure has been building on Lance since last spring, when the first reports surfaced of his financial difficulties and his high-rolling behavior as a banker in Georgia before he joined Old Friend Jimmy Carter's Administration. By last week rumors were cascading through Washington and Atlanta that his resignation, while not necessarily imminent, was inevitable. One well-placed Atlanta businessman, who is close to both Lance and Carter, told friends that Lance...
When Chairman Daniel Haughton and President A. Carl Kotchian were forced to resign last year at the height of the payments scandal, Lockheed seemed likely to stall like a disabled jet. That it did not is due largely to Robert Haack, former president of the New York Stock...