Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been briefed by the CIA in 1973 about its involvement in assassination plans and domestic espionage. Because of the seeming conflict of interest-the committee might have to investigate Nedzi's failure to act on the matter-five of his six Democratic colleagues insisted that he resign. Nedzi did so last week. The squabble virtually ensured that the main investigation will be left to the Church committee...
...less noisily than Benn. Education Minister Reginald Prentice, a leading pro-Marketeer, was switched to the Ministry of Overseas Development as a gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said...
...Speaker later posed them by simply referring to the number of the question and name of the questioner. The result was frequently a totally unilluminating exchange that sounded Like: Speaker: "Mr. Smith." Minister: "No, sir, I will not." That left listeners wondering whether the question was "Will you please resign?" or, perhaps, "Will you address yourself to the price of beans in Liverpool?" Confusion was compounded by the Commons' tradition of referring to members by their constituencies rather than their surnames. Relatively few listeners, presumably, realized that a reference to "the right honorable gentleman from Bexley, Sidcup" meant former...
...great talent outside the Congress. It would also blur the separation of Executive and Legislative powers set forth in the Constitution, a distinction that is basic to the American system of government. There is no guarantee, either, that giving Cabinet members a political home to retreat to after resignation would alter what appears to be a basic reluctance of Americans in power to resign publicly on an issue of principle...
...confidential letter to his colleagues in November. Bell threatened to resign it the Law School did not substantially increase its efforts to hire minority faculty...