Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have said that they would resign if they found the CRR unresponsive to proposals for reform...
...Republicans gain no ground or even lose some after such a mailed-fist assault on the Senate, Nixon may see in the results a suggestion that while America periodically drifts either right or left, it has rarely moved far or fast in either direction. And he will have to resign himself to at least two more years of coexistence with a liberal Senate, made all the more truculent by his efforts to transform...
...McCarthy-a charge she firmly denies. In her most celebrated battle, she faced down Abba Schwartz, the liberal head of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, in an effort to ease political restrictions on the issuance of passports, tried to force her to resign. In the end, it was Schwartz who resigned from the department...
Despite Allende's clear if narrow claim to victory, the two losing parties seemed at one point to be on the verge of snatching the presidency away from him. Alessandri, the right-wing runner-up, said that if he were elected President by the Congress, he would resign immediately, paving the way for new elections. The popular President Frei, legally barred from succeeding himself, would then be permitted to run. Although he would probably have won an absolute majority against any and all opponents, Frei did not support the plan publicly, possibly because he believed that it was merely...
...They remain empowered to remove a president at any time, just as he is free to resign...