Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most shaped the news and influenced the course of history. In other circumstances, that man might well have been Richard Nixon. More than two years after the Watergate burglary, after months of scandal that left the nation divided and depressed, Nixon became the first American President to resign. Yet no matter how dramatic the denouement, Nixon's role was essentially passive and self-destructive; his Administration was at last overtaken by the slow, relentless working of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress and ultimately the public conscience. Nixon's departure was a strange and absorbing spectacle, but the great...
...some sympathy from the jury earlier in an emotional recitation of his final days in the Nixon Administration. On questioning by his lawyer, William Prates, Ehrlichman recalled being summoned to Camp David on the afternoon of April 29, 1973. There, on a cabin porch, Nixon told him he must resign. Ehrlichman said Nixon found this chore "very painful" and even "broke down at one point and cried." Nixon offered him money for legal fees and "anything else he could do for me." All Ehrlichman wanted, he testified, was for Nixon some day "to explain to our children...
...that startled ordinary citizens and politicians alike, the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last week selected a little-known veteran politician, former Deputy Premier Takeo Miki, 67, as its president. When the Japanese Diet convenes this week for a special session at which Kakuei Tanaka will formally resign as Premier, the L.D.P. majority will ensure the election of Miki as Japan's twelfth postwar head of government...
...speculation that followed Tanaka's announcement that he would resign as Premier, Miki was barely even considered a dark horse. It was widely assumed that only two L.D.P. elders, both with the backing of strong factions within the party, had a chance of succeeding Tanaka: Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 64, who enjoyed the outgoing Premier's support, and former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69. Although he had previously been a candidate for the premiership, Miki (see box following page) could count on the backing of only a minor bloc within the party. Moreover, he had the reputation...
...personal failings some reflection of the failings of the system he represented in the press and in the public mind. Whitney's image as the White Knight of American capitalism was so ingrained that members of the SEC seriously considered letting him replace the embezzled money quietly and resign, in order to preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last minute his world collapsed--that Jersey...