Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This recommendation, quite astounding given Kissinger's role in the Middle East, will probably be rejected since it would undoubtedly cause the Secretary to resign...
Asked whether he might resign, Kissinger replied that he had no plans to "follow Dr. Moynihan either to Harvard or out of Government" (see story following page). Though he realizes he will probably not be in office next year no matter who is elected, he wants to stay on the job for 1976. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter reports: "Kissinger sees himself as holding the structure of the nation's foreign policy together, and he is in no position to hand over foreign policy to a successor now. He fears the impact of his leaving would contribute...
What finally caused Moynihan to resign, friends say, was a column by New York Timesman James Reston that said "Messrs. Ford and Kissinger support him in public and deplore him in private." Moynihan figured that Kissinger fed that directly to Reston. The day after the column appeared, Moynihan quit. His critics believe he had been looking for just such an excuse...
...area, the college and the club differ completely. The University of Virginia admits and is actively recruiting blacks; Farmington does not accept blacks as either members or guests. Last week, after members had voted overwhelmingly to continue the club's restrictive policies, Hereford was undergoing pressure to resign from Farmington...
...Foreign Relations Committee, the Senator told his colleagues unhappily: "I am caught between women's rights and my respect for the Senate." Conceding that he had been sorely troubled by his wife's job, he later hinted to newsmen that he had asked her to resign. A family friend put it more bluntly: "He has given her an ultimatum." Would she quit? Marion "wants time, a quiet time, to think about her position," said Marvin Frankel, a top executive at Ruder & Finn, her public relations firm...