Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Nixon's culpability is not yet clear, although the president of almost anything else would have been quickly forced to resign by a scandal infecting so much of his organization. Moreover, the strange oscillations in White House attitudes toward the various investigations raised grave doubts about Nixon's innocence. First there were blanket denials, lavish claims of Executive privilege and invocations of national security. Then came repeated clarifications, previous statements declared "inoperative," and multiple promises of full disclosure. Subpoenas were resisted. The persistent Special Prosecutor was fired. Next a sudden yielding to the courts, followed by an Operation Candor...
...flirting, she would "give up altogether." Now it seems that her championship of sometime Photographer Ron Protas, 31, as executive director of the Martha Graham Dance Company has caused several old friends to give her up. Sounding like a rejected suitor, Graham Company Veteran Bertram Ross explained his recent resignation: "Life has always been difficult with Martha. Now, Protas is encouraging her to fantasize she's a young girl and two men are fighting over her favors." Exiting too were another long-time Graham dancer, Mary Hinkson and five "unsympathetic" members of the board who were persuaded by Martha...
...larger doubts about those who, like Bob Dole of Kansas, are still counted in the Nixon tent. Most reporters in this city have lost count of the number of Senators and Congressmen who have said how much better off they think the country would be if Nixon would just resign...
...Nixon is a guilty man and if evidence or testimony linking him directly with crimes is about to come out, he probably will resign. Or if the mathematics of the House is such that impeachment seems inevitable, then the threat of unlimited subpoena powers to get any document and talk to any witness may be more than he can or will want to withstand...
...President has the constitutional power to hire and fire his subordinates. But Kissinger, argues Hughes, because of Watergate and his personal stature, can, in effect, fire the President. "Nixon's fate is to some extent in Kissinger's hands. If Kissinger should resign or be relieved, Nixon would almost certainly follow...