Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical moment in U.S. foreign affairs, he denounced the Administration's foreign policy and Harry Truman asked him to resign. He flounced out of both the Cabinet and the Democratic Party, stumbled away angrily and into the embrace of the pink and bosomy Progressive Citizens of America...
...came from a young reporter who, with a show of innocence, got the match finally under way. How, he asked, did the President feel about Congressman Percy Priest's belief that Secretaries Johnson and Acheson should resign...
Well, said Harry Truman, as 132 bloodthirsty newsmen watched eagerly, this was a surprise! Priest had no business saying that, Truman retorted-especially since he is the House Democratic whip. Make it plain to him, the President told the reporter, that the two secretaries would not resign as long as he was President...
...last month, unable to find any good reason for serving out his six-year appointment, Joe O'Connell offered to resign. Washington heard that he couldn't see eye to eye with the White House on the proposed sale of American Overseas Airlines to Pan American World Airways. Last week Harry Truman sent him a brief, cool note of "best wishes" and accepted his resignation. Some thought that this was a hint that the President was ready to give Pan Am's merger the go-ahead...
...when they said it, and quickly whizzed them off at Secretary of State Dean Acheson's elegant top hat. The Communist attack in Korea might well not have taken place, argued Taft, if the U.S. had given the South Koreans proper aid, and he thought Acheson "had better resign." Wherry loudly agreed. Now that the U.S. had decided to protect Formosa, as he had urged, said Taft, he felt vindicated. But Taft said nothing about Senate votes last September and again in May, to authorize multimillion-dollar aid to Korea. Among those who had voted against the bill, both...