Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCloskey, who resigned his ambassadorship only last month, had nothing to say about Baker. Of the VA hospital suit, he declared: "We can successfully defend our position." Meanwhile, White House aides hastened to point out that the ambassador's resignation was only a coincidence, had nothing whatever to do with his difficulties. McCloskey had intended to resign anyway, they said, to help raise money for the coming Democratic campaigns...
...that Sir Alec Douglas-Home was chosen to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan only because Macmillan could not bear the thought of his then-deputy, R. A. Butler, taking the reins. And Butler, argued Macleod, was "incomparably the best qualified of the contenders." When the ailing Macmillan decided to resign, he soon saw that none of his own favorites in the Cabinet had a decisive lead over Butler. Since "Macmillan was determined that Butler should not succeed him," the Prime Minister arranged an elaborate set of party soundings weighted to show that Home was everybody's compromise candidate...
Died. Sheikh Bechara el Khoury, 74, first President of independent Lebanon from 1943 to 1952, who spearheaded his country's revolt against the French, gave it one of the Middle East's few stable regimes, but was forced to resign when opposition politicians charged (but could not prove) that his family was profiting from government deals in everything from cement to gold; of cancer; in Beirut...
Congress Party has been racked with internal dissension ever since Nehru last fall asked a number of top Cabinet officers-including Food Minister S. K. Patil, Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai -to resign, ostensibly to reorganize the party and revitalize its strength among the masses. But it is generally felt that Nehru actually intended the move as a ruse to shake out of the Cabinet all potential contenders for his post. Wise to the scheme, the ousted ministers set about building up personal followings for a succession fight...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., '38, will resign as Special Assistant to the President in approximately two months, but will almost certainly not be returning to Harvard...