Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would rather have a strong, balky horse than a weak one that minds the whip. There are ways of making a balky horse respond. I hope that the President does not resign, but stays on to finish...
...President Nixon does not resign, and we, the people, allow him to continue to rule, our epitaph might be: "No one was killed, just democracy...
...believe Nixon's claim that two of the tapes never were made. A plurality (47% to 27%) believed that the two tapes were destroyed because they would have revealed the President's complicity in the Watergate coverup. More seriously, the percentage of Americans wanting Nixon to resign his office rose to 43%, a sharp climb from 36% in October...
Last month when George Meany and the AFL-CIO at its convention in Florida boomed approval of a resolution calling for President Nixon to resign or be impeached, White House officials pointed to press coverage of the event as an example of distorted reporting. Not all labor leaders had supported the resolution, complained the White House, and thus the reports that the AFL-CIO decision was unanimous were misleading. The Administration's example of a pro-Nixon labor leader: Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers' Union and member of the 35-man AFL-CIO executive council...
Hall did oppose the resign-or-be-impeached resolution when it was presented by Meany to the executive session of the giant labor federation's council. He alone among the 31 members present at the closed-door, prebreakfast session voted no to the proposal. Later in the day, when the resolution went before the 2,000 delegates to the convention, Hall sat stonily silent through the discussion and the floor vote; the resolution passed unanimously. Since executive sessions are held in secret and only the later convention meeting was open to the press, newsmen did not know Hall...