Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House briefing room last week to hold a press conference. But appearances were somewhat deceiving. The tall Texan was there to confess to a loss of power at the White House. After a mere six weeks as President Nixon's adviser, he announced he was planning to resign some time in the summer and go off on a long-deferred trip around the world...
...Thompson-White House summary does concede, as Dean has claimed in the past, that on April 16 Nixon asked Dean to resign and prepared two documents for his signature. The summary does not explain the need for two papers. Dean contends that one was a resignation, the other a confession of his sole role in the Watergate cover-up-papers Dean would not sign because he claimed that Ehrlichman and Haldeman were deeply involved as well and must share the blame. Thus it was that Nixon announced on April 30 that Dean had been fired and Ehrlichman and Haldeman...
...with journalistic prying into her private life, Martha got on the line to U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas (who is certain that this was the real Martha) and announced that she and Marty were "going South." Before leaving, she merely wanted to reiterate her view that Nixon should resign. "I don't like Agnew, but my God, I think he's better than Nixon. I've told my husband repeatedly that I may not be here many years, but Marty will be, and his grandchildren." For good measure, she telephoned NBC and spoke to Newsman Peter Hackes...
...weeks ago, Public Works Under Secretary Jorge Horacio Zubiri, a Cámpora appointee, was actually forced to resign by maintenance work ers who invaded his office (he was later "reinstated" by the government). Peronist youths went to the American school in Buenos Aires' posh foreign community to announce a project to nationalize...
Frye, who became famous doing impersonations of Nixon, claims he gets his biggest guffaw when he has Nixon say: "The odds are 100 to 1 that I'll be impeached, 50 to 1 that I'll resign. That is not the reason that I am today signing a prison-reform bill. There will be a two-bedroom suite for anyone who has once held the highest office." Far from alienating his audiences with Watergate gags, says Frye, "the only danger I've had is not going far enough. If I hold back, the audience is disappointed." Frye...