Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of his staffers, and New Jersey's Frank Thompson, 57, took over Hays' old job as chairman of the Administration Committee. Thompson, who had fiercely fought Hays' tyrannical control, promptly fired one of the former chairman's top aides and told four others to resign if they did not wish to be dismissed...
Sort of Scapegoat. Donnelly and her companion were discovered in bed by her roommate and a male cadet, who explained later that they were looking for some aspirin. The male cadet, known on campus as "Turkey," tipped academy officials, who pressured Donnelly to resign but did not discipline her bunkmate. According to the academy's account, he had burrowed deep under the covers and could not be identified. Said a spokesman: "We knew only that he had blond hair. When we called in her boy friend, who has blond hair, he denied the incident." But Donnelly insists that everyone...
Daly, who will resign in July ending a five-year stint in the community affairs office, cites in the conclusion to his report as the problems that remain for Harvard and the community the further improvement of the Cambridge schools and reduction in their cost; strengthening the Cambridge police; and examining the structure, effectiveness and cost of the city government...
...sexual playmates. Hays, 65, and apparently insatiable, admitted the relationship but protested unpersuasively that Ray had done other work too. Few of the many men who had encountered Liz during her four years on Capitol Hill knew of any talents beyond the bedroom. Congressional Democrats pressed for Hays to resign his committee chairmanships, and even the reputation of House Speaker Carl Albert was at stake. Orgies were reported to have taken place in a Capitol Hill office assigned to Albert...
...describe politics as "dirty business" and to announce that she had told Mitchell to choose between their marriage and continued service to Nixon, a campaign security agent assigned to look after her ripped out the phone, had her sedated, and confined her to a hotel room. Mitchell soon after resigned as Nixon's campaign manager and moved with Martha to a 14-room Manhattan apartment. But she was not pacified for long. She publicly accused "Mr. President" of deep involvement in Watergate, condemned him for letting Mitchell and others take the blame, and demanded that he resign. By then...