Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your editorial calling for President Nixon to resign [Nov. 12] said it all. clearly and fairly. I hope the President will read it, will understand it. and will resign...
...sorry for you if you don't like our great President. I suggest that you get used to him, though, because he was elected by a landslide, and he will be around for another three years; he will not resign, nor will he ever be impeached...
...makes me to read your editorial. You have taken a brave stand, as we all should. You have publicly committed yourself to what you believe is right and what you believe is wrong. I believe you are right, the President should resign. That is what makes me sad. I doubt that the President any longer knows what is right...
Another tense moment came when Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke told Nixon what he had previously said publicly. "I have reluctantly come to the conclusion, Mr. President, as painful as it is to me, that you should resign." Rarely in U.S. history had such a direct request come from a respected member of a President's own party. Replied Nixon: "Ed, I understand your reasoning, and I'm not hurt or angry, but that would be taking the easy way out, and I can't accept your recommendation...
Richardson told TIME that the Nixon-Haig version was "very clearly and demonstrably untrue." He helped draw up the Stennis plan, he said, but he threatened to resign when he was told by Haig that Cox would be fired if he did not agree with the proposal. Richardson said he asked for a meeting with Nixon on that Friday morning to present his resignation notes. But Haig met him and agreed to drop the idea of firing Cox, Richardson said. That pacified Richardson...