Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limit." The State Department's declaration, followed by the White House denial that actually confirmed it, naturally caused plenty of talk in Washington. Amid rumors that he would soon resign because of various ailments (deafness, a bad back), U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Maxwell Taylor was in town to consult with the President. When reporters asked Taylor about reports that Johnson wants U.S. forces beefed up-possibly to 100,000 men by the end of the year-Taylor would only say cautiously, "I know of no such project...
...rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram promising to resign from the Academy unless it "publicly repudiates your views...
...F.D.R., who as Governor of New York had admired her work as his industrial commissioner, remained a staunch backer and more than once refused her offer to resign. Much of his New Deal legislation, including the monumental social security law, could be traced directly to her influence...
...then shipping them off to Puerto Rico aboard a Dominican gunboat. The one man he did not exile was Brigadier General Elías Wessin y Wessin, leader of the loyalists in the early stages of the revolt. At one point, Wessin y Wessin seemed on the verge of resigning, then changed his mind. Imbert refused to force his hand. "The government has not asked for his resignation," said Imbert. "He should know what to do." For his part, Wessin said: "I will not resign as long as one Communist remains in the country...
...Barrientos analyzed it, the decision was forced on him by popular will. For months the dashing flyer has wavered back and forth, first, on whether he would be a candidate in the elections, and then, whether he should resign from the junta to run, as the constitution requires. Three weeks ago, in the face of mounting pressure on all sides, Barrientos suddenly announced that he was withdrawing from the elections in the interests of "national harmony and unity." Almost on cue, a series of noisy protest demonstrations erupted among pro-Barrientos peasants in Cochabamba and Sucre, south...