Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis Harris Survey indicated that Operation Candor had been a dismal flop. Despite it, Nixon had skidded to a low point in popularity: only 30% of the public found his job performance acceptable. More significant, for the first time a plurality, 47% to 42%, agreed that he should resign. A Gallup poll also showed Nixon slipping again; his approval rating fell two points to match his alltime low of 27% last October after the Saturday Night Massacre. Ominously for Nixon, both polls reflected opinion samplings taken before last week's report on the tape...
...latest tape debacle is certain to further endanger Nixon's survival in office. One of the most powerful men in the House, which must decide whether the President is to be impeached, issued a qualified?but possibly portentous ?call for his resignation. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, the Democratic head of the committee investigating Nixon's taxes, said the tape erasure had "destroyed the candor program" of the President, and made an impeachment recommendation from the House Judiciary Committee more likely. Mills said that if Nixon asked his advice, he would say, "Resign in the near future...
...white woman, who asked not to be identified, said that after she was admitted to the program Crooks and Dr. Delano Meriwether, then executive director of the program, asked her to resign and attend the summer school instead...
...formal political fabric in sharp disregard of the material change which the war generated in Israel's political options; a change that was encouraged precisely by the economic and political policies of Golda, Dayan and Gallili who were not compelled to pay the obvious democratic price and to resign prior to the forth-coming elections. I argued however, that in spite of this failure to change the Labor's leadership prior to the election, the Likud is not going to score such significant gains as to be able to establish a government under Mr. Begin's leadership, but those gains...
House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma, who outranks O'Neill in the Democratic leadership, told reporters he had no comment on O'Neill's statement and added, "I would have to think a long time before I would recommend to the president that he resign...