Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gulf between Hays and the party leaders was also widened when Albert last week summoned Hays and, with O'Neill at the Speaker's side, asked the Ohioan to resign his leadership of the Campaign Committee. Albert argued that Hays had become too controversial to be an effective fund raiser. Hays angrily refused, but the touchy matter is far from settled...
...Republican, he urged Richard Nixon to resign rather than put the country through a lengthy and divisive impeachment process. But he also argued that the President should be permitted to destroy tapes and documents before leaving office...
...Accords, the Communists have concentrated on building up their hold on rural areas; now they seem ready to attack and conquer key administrative centers and major towns. Their apparent goal is to erode the political base of President Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government, forcing it eventually to resign or enter a coalition with the Provisional Revolutionary Government...
...Haldeman warned: "John, you shouldn't do that, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is hard to get it back in." But on April 15 they learned that "Dean has decided to let it all hang out." Next day Dean was asked by Nixon to resign...
Continued Neal: "He was not asked to resign when he tells the President there has been perjury, subornation of perjury, offers of clemency and a half million dollars paid to buy silence on March 21, but three weeks later when he tells the President of the United States, Mr. President, I am telling prosecutors all, the next day he is asked for his resignation." Soon, according to Neal, everyone was saying, "John Dean did this, John Dean did that, John Dean made me do that, I was just acting on John Dean's instructions...