Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applaud Agnew for haying the courage to resign. It is too bad Nixon won't do the same and make it a majority. We need more people like ... what's his name...
...legal task force assembled by Cox will apparently remain intact for the time being. Though some of the younger attorneys threatened to resign as a protest against Cox's firing, Assistant Special Prosecutor James McBride and other top Cox assistants persuaded them that the momentum of the fast-spreading Watergate investigation would be slowed for months without their expertise. Criminal Division Chief Henry Petersen, who is mightily distrusted by many Cox associates because of his solicitous attention to Administration feelings during the original Watergate investigation, held a tense meeting with members of the staff. As their temporary boss...
...this historic insult to the rule of law and to the nation's system of justice." Argued West Virginia Congressman Ken Hechler: "Impeachment proceedings must be initiated at the earliest possible moment." California Congressman Don Edwards urged Nixon to admit that he had made "a terrible mistake" and resign...
...Choice." In a five-paragraph letter of resignation, Richardson cited his pledge to the Senate, given at his confirmation hearings last May, that he would "not countermand or interfere with the special prosecutor's decisions or actions." He added: "I trust that you understand that I could not in the light of these firm and repeated commitments carry out your direction . . . In the circumstances, therefore, I felt that I have no choice but to resign." Nixon accepted with a one-sentence note: "It is with the deepest regret and with an understanding of the circumstances which brought...
More than half of the students in the Harvard Business School favor President Nixon's impeachment if he does not resign, a poll released yesterday revealed...