Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John C. Snyder announced last Sunday that he will resign as Dean of the Faculty of Public Health on June 30 and devote his remaining five years at Harvard to studying problems in population and the prevention of infectious disease...
...Nobody is going to force me to resign because of a list of speeding tickets. Rent Control in Cambridge will never be run fairly and impartially if tactics of this nature are used to coerce people to either resign or be fired," he added...
...considerable authority over those under him. As a result of so much power being concentrated at the top, there is virtually none at the bottom. In the House, where the seniority system is most oppressive, a new member is virtually impotent. Whatever his talent or promise, he must resign himself to a marginal role in Congress for his first few terms. "The damage you never see is the worst," says Columbia University Philosopher Charles Frankel, who watched Capitol Hill from 1965 to 1967 as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. "Young, bright Congressmen come to Washington full...
...back." Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman sat in for most of the 25-minute meeting in the Oval Office. Nixon dislikes such confrontations. For months the President and other members of the Administration had subjected Hickel to almost systematic pressures and slights designed to make him feel sufficiently unwelcome to resign. Now Nixon, after the briefest pleasantries, came to the point: he wanted Hickel's resignation, "effective immediately." Hickel did not protest. He recited what he judged to be his accomplishments in his 22 months at Interior, then took a frosty leave. Later the White House summarily fired...
...choice will indicate to what extent the White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might be more willing to function simply as Nixon's spokesman. There was talk that John Mitchell might resign as Attorney General to assume overall command of Nixon's campaign above the party chairman, but that would seem illogical now; Mitchell can easily advise the President politically without leaving the Justice Department...