Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertainties, the stock market took its biggest plunge in more than a decade, dropping 24.24 points on a single day on the Dow Jones industrial average. Officials of the New York Stock Exchange quietly circulated a contingency plan on the floor to close the market instantly if Nixon should resign. Haifa world away, a similar small omen appeared in the pages of Pravda, which for the first time began readying Soviet readers for Nixon's possible exit. In private, Soviet officials were spreading the line: "Our relations with the U.S. are based on Washington policies, not on the President...
...Congress overrode his veto and placed new limits on his war powers (see story page 30). Top officials of the AFL-CIO launched a campaign to get the union's 13.5 million members to demand the President's "immediate impeachment." The union's convention had called upon Nixon to resign, but since he apparently will not, the AFL-CIO statement said, there are 19 reasons why he should be impeached. Among them: "He has consistently lied to the American people;" "He has violated the Constitution and his sworn obligation to see that the laws 'be faithfully executed;' " "He has used...
Should President Nixon resign? Should he be impeached? Or what should he do to prevent either? Last week those once unthinkable questions were argued in a solemn and unique national debate. Excerpts from the most notable opinions...
SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER, Conservative Republican from Arizona: Let's not jump up and say impeach. Let's not jump up and say resign. Right now there is no evidence the President has done anything wrong. I think the only way he has out now would be to show up some morning at the Ervin committee and say, "Here I am, Sam. What do you want to know...
There's a rumor floating around that the only way President Nixon will resign is if he's offered a coaching job with the Washington Redskins. It just may be the only way to move him out of 1600 Pennsylvania...