Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate and the threat of impeachment. Conciliation having failed in Operation Candor, he and his defenders took the offensive, carrying out that pugnacious vow made last week at a private White House meeting with a group of Republican Congressmen. The themes were clear: he was innocent; he would never resign; he would resist impeachment as a narrow partisan political attack on him. And he got some help when Egil Krogh Jr. contended that the President was not responsible for one burglary carried out by the White House plumbers team that Krogh headed...
...declared that "under no circumstances could I consider resignation. We cannot allow Government to be overtaken by a mass assault on the presidency ... we cannot have a convulsion in the greatest nation in the world." Meeting 19 Southern and Border State Democrats, Nixon repeated: "It's unthinkable that I will resign. I'll fight it right down to the wire...
...informing them that his new position as the city's director of special programs would undoubtedly mean "even greater benefits" for them than they'd had in the past. When The New York Times published the letter, Terry acknowledged that it had been poorly worded. Beame asked Terry to resign. That was only the beginning...
...York's first black deputy mayor is Paul Gibson Jr., formerly a vice-president of American Airlines. So far, no one has asked Gibson to resign, although Sunday's New York Times reported that his getting only "liaison" responsibilities with the Office of Contract Compliance, which tries to make sure that construction projects employ some black workers, had touched off "intensive debate...
...busy elsewhere. Then Tenor Jon Vickers, who seems to tremble before Wagner but may just possibly be the Tristan everyone at the Met (including Nilsson) has been waiting for, begged out of his first two performances-he wanted more time. Not to be outdone, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf threatened to resign, complaining that he could not get decisions from the besieged opera house, but then relented and stayed...