Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will President Nixon be impeached or forced to resign because of Watergate? Don't bet on it. That's the current advice of Las Vegas Oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek Snyder. He estimates that the odds are 1,000 to 1 against impeachment and a somewhat less staggering 200 to 1 against resignation. Jimmy also says that the odds against convicting former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...House. Trapped between the hostility of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, who distrusted any signs of independence, and the jealousy of State Department officials who resented his power and success, Kissinger has been a target of sniping ever since he joined the Administration. He has tried on three separate occasions to resign. Each time, his friends have persuaded him to stay...
Paul Healy agrees: "I think he should resign. His credibility has been ruined. Reporters who cover the White House every day say, 'Who's going to believe him again?' " Some argue that because he is a prisoner of the President's wishes, Ziegler's personal trustworthiness is not at issue. "Ziegler's credibility doesn't trouble me at all," says the New Republic's John Osborne. "Ziegler's credibility is Nixon's credibility...
...Succeeds? The newly suggested possibility of an appeal wildly complicates the issue of succession. Would the President remain in office pending the Supreme Court's final determination? Even if he were removed, or if he resigned, would the Vice President take over? Constitutionalists have taken belated note of a provision of the 25th Amendment, ratified six years ago after Lyndon Johnson, having succeeded the murdered John Kennedy, served without a Vice President. The amendment states that if the vice presidency is vacant, the President can appoint a new Vice President, with the concurrence of both houses. The clause...
...debut as a regular Times columnist has suffered from the strain of Watergate, weighed in with a conversation between himself and his mother conducted over Mom's chicken soup. "Mom-if you can't be sure the President didn't know, do you think he should resign?" Her plucky reply: "Absolutely not. He has character, and if he didn't know, he should stay on and try to be the best President we ever had." Dwight Eisenhower's son John, a Nixon inlaw, composed a hearts-and-flowers allegory about "the Coach" whose team...