Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried to justify "the bloody crimes perpetrated against the Congolese people by the colonialists and their stooges. It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post as that of Secretary-General." Khrushchev demanded that Hammarskjold "muster up enough courage to resign...
...office is really his; he has been creating it every day. Although the Secretary-General has a constitutional right under the UN Charter to send troops to the Congo, for example, a lesser man than Hammarskjold would have hesitated. And on Oct. 3, when Premier Khrushchev demanded that he resign and proposed the plan to neutralize his office, Hammarskjold characteristically refused--and won a standing ovation from the General Assembly. Equally important, Prime Minister Nehru's speech was symbolic of a growing respect the African and Asian nations entertain for the Secretary-General...
...McCaffery. He has since been indicted for perjury and also charged with accepting a $2,000 campaign contribution from an officer of the school custodians' union (unbeknownst to the union members). A grand jury also found that three other board members were guilty of impropriety, suggested that they resign. One did; the other two face ouster suits. Dan Schlafly has also gone to court to oust another building commissioner, who went from board member to the $15,000-a-year commissioner's job, a maneuver that Schlafly considers poor policy...
...Would Resign." Once in command of the microphone, Kennedy wasted no time getting to his point. "I believe in an America," said he, reading word for word from a five-page statement drafted by himself and Speechwriter Ted Sorensen (a Unitarian), "where the separation of church and state is absolute-where no Catholic prelate would tell the President, should he be a Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote." He urged the clergymen to "judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress-on my declared stands...
...power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise. But if the time should ever come-and I do not concede any conflict to be even remotely possible-when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign from office, and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same...