Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talked it over in bits and pieces for some time with the President. At the start of 1976, he went over it once more with Ford, so that there was no misunderstanding. He understood, he told the President, that events could make it necessary for him to resign to prevent Ford's political defeat. Kissinger was ready and willing on signal. And he would do it so that it would not impair the continuity of America's foreign policy. Just what signal Ford would give Kissinger is a greater secret than what the Secretary talks about...
Nonetheless, the British government was trying to enlist Washington and Pretoria in a joint diplomatic offensive to put pressure on Smith to yield-or resign. The message: the only way Soviet influence in black Africa can be contained is to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of Africa's black majorities...
Imagine for a moment that some inventive and omnipotent god offered the nation a device that would greatly advance the spread of information. In return, the deity required that the President resign, that stacks of sensitive Government and corporate secrets be made public, and that the country be buried in a sea of paper. There would probably be few takers...
Holcombe now says the strict provisions of the reinstatement may force him to resign the post of shop steward. "I feel like I'm on parole," he said last week...
...Harvard faculty first. But the faculty must see that it is hypocritical for them as members of a medical school increasingly concerned with the equal distribution of health care to be connected--even unofficially--to a regime that patently ignores its citizens' well-being. Dean Ebert should resign as an ex-officio member of the medical school consortium, citing political reasons...