Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, the fact that he was so cut off from CREEP, Nixon and the White House saved Dole's political career after Watergate. He attacked the press for hounding Nixon on Watergate, but he apparently knew nothing about the break-in that eventually was to drive Nixon to resign. Although he defended the President too long, Dole declared as early as May 18, 1973, that "Nixon appears to be hiding from the people, who really trust and like him very much." The Senator advised the President to come out of seclusion and meet openly with the public...
...realization that the ticket was a bust had been evident to Schweiker for at least 24 hours. As soon as Gerald Ford won the vice-presidential rules fight the previous evening, Schweiker had telephoned Reagan with an offer to resign. It was shortly after midnight, and an aide told Schweiker the Governor had gone to sleep. Schweiker urged him to check the bedroom because he had something important to say. He was asked to wait until the next morning, and at breakfast he finally told Reagan, who quickly declined his offer to withdraw. "I'm not going to leave...
...DINA is fairly ecumenical in finding victims; former parliamentarians and army officers have been tortured, as well as suspect leftist terrorists. Recounts Carlos Pérez Tobar, once a lieutenant in the Chilean army arrested by the junta after he tried to resign his commission: "I was tortured with electric shock, forced to live in underground dungeons so small that in one I could only stand up and in the other only lie down. I was beaten incessantly, dragged before a mock firing squad, and regularly told that my wife and child and relatives were suffering the same fate...
Nixon had tried to resign voluntarily from the New York bar, as he had done successfully in California and from Supreme Court practice. He did not contest the charges, which were brought by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York...
Says Cadet Gay Gray of Dallas: "We know the eyes of America are upon us." The academy's superintendent, Lieut. General Sidney B. Berry, knows it too. Reminded that he once threatened to resign if women were accepted at the Point, the general said last week: "It was rather adolescent on my part. But I got over it and decided to do what a good soldier does-get on with...