Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forced by President Nixon to resign last week...
Forced by President Nixon to resign last week...
...many mysteries left over from the President's TV speech of April 30 is why he gave such lavish praise to Haldeman and Ehrlichman. If they were indeed among "the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know," why was he forcing them to resign? Was this praise the price for their going quietly (so far)? One prefers to think that it was an oblique acknowledgment of the President's own responsibility for the general style, if not all the specific acts of his staff, and that the President would now be wary of comparable "devotion...
Last September, when Bennett announced his intention to resign from the post, he cited an overload of work as his principal reason for leaving. On top of the Treasurership, he has headed the State Street Research and Management Corporation, one of Boston's largest investment counseling firms...
Charging that the regime had disrupted the armed forces, damaged the economy, engaged in "unprecedented brutality" against protesting students, and lied to the people with false pledges to restore democracy, Caramanlis demanded that the junta resign, bring back King Constantine from exile in Rome and hand over power to "an experienced and strong government." In a slap at U.S. policy, he charged that Washington was "either in collusion with the Greek regime or wanted to be deceived by it in order to justify its own contradictory policy...