Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tape, Ford felt that Nixon's end was near. On Aug. 8, Ford was summoned to Nixon's office. Before Ford went in to see the President, he talked to Haig. Both men felt that Nixon was going to tell Ford of his plan to resign, but there still was uncertainty. Nixon continued to vacillate, Haig said. One minute he seemed ready to resign, the next he rallied and insisted that he would not. Ford walked in and sat down beside the President's desk. For a few seconds there was silence. Then Nixon looked...
...call upon the City Manager to fire the Police Chief or to admit he is incapable of managing the city and to resign...
Haig retains admiration for Nixon in that dark hour. "There was every idea imaginable around," he declared, "including the idea that Nixon should pardon himself and everybody else." There were only two options seriously considered. The first was to resign unconditionally, as he did, or see it through and let the system work to the end. He knew the outcome. He felt an obligation to the country...
While negotiating effectively with Ford, Nixon was rebuffed on another front as he struggled to get his personal affairs in order. His perfunctory resignation from the California Bar Association was opposed by that group on grounds that his letter did not even concede that he was under investigation in disbarment proceedings. The turndown keeps that investigation alive, unless it is overruled by the California Supreme Court. Nixon contends that he has no plans to practice law and intends also to resign from the New York Bar Association. It too has initiated a preliminary disbarment probe and is likely to echo...
...Supreme Commander of NATO. He recognizes the hostility within the Ford staff. "I feel like a Martian mutation?I've got so much scar tissue," he says wryly. While Haig performed heroically in holding Nixon's White House together in the last days and helped persuade Nixon to resign, suspicions of the general's pro-Nixon sentiments are not groundless. He had, after all, helped push the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, out of office after playing a devious role in the phony Stennis compromise on the Nixon tapes. He had also managed to disregard much of the evidence against...