Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could no longer keep his emotions in check. The book's most moving scene describes how Nixon summoned Kissinger to the small Lincoln Sitting Room in the White House living quarters. Nixon had been drinking. To Kissinger's relief, the President said he was going to resign. He was full of self-pity. "Will history treat me more kindly than my contemporaries?" he asked. Then he began sobbing. Trying to be fatherly, Kissinger reminded the President that he would be remembered for his peacemaking...
Haig, Buzhardt and St. Clair, now united in the inescapable conclusion that Nixon must quit, set in motion a delicate maneuver to get the President to reach the decision on his own. Certain that he would rebel if pressured to resign, they persuaded him that the tape's contents must be made public. They knew there would be a tremendous outcry when Americans realized that Nixon had been lying to them all along. The strategy, of course, worked. The reaction was swift and overwhelmingly angry-and it told Richard Nixon what his advisers could not, dared not tell...
...became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many Argentines felt-and hoped-that she would resign. Yet 32 days later she returned to the capital, only to be hospitalized within a few weeks for a gall bladder attack that seemed more political than physical...
Only a few family members and close aides knew that when Prime Minister Harold Wilson climbed into the front of his official black Rover shortly after ten one gray morning early last week, he was on his way to Buckingham Palace to inform the Queen of his intention to resign from office. An hour later, when he broke the news to his Cabinet of his "irrevocable" decision to step down this month, the ministers sat in stunned silence; tears rolled down a few cheeks. So great was the disbelief by the BBC that it delayed telecasting the flash bulletin from...
Even if Wilson was being candid in his explanation, however, it did seem strange for him to resign just when currencies were in turmoil (with the pound dipping below $2 for the first time ever) and the British economy was afflicted with rampant inflation (23.4%) and rising (now 5.6%) unemployment. It would have seemed that Wilson would have wanted to stay at least until April 6 for the presentation of a new budget that will reflect his new austerity policy. But Wilson may have wanted to step down early so as to give his successor maximum time to build...