Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefellers were only able to depose him because, in the course of putting together the 1965-6 New York City World's Fair, he had lost the support of public opinion and the press, which for forty years had allowed him to blackmail public officials by simply threatening to resign...
...House staff-concluded grimly last week that Richard Nixon should be thinking less about impeachment than about a sort of plea-bargaining at the very highest level. This official suggested to TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that the President should tell Vice President Gerald Ford that he is prepared to resign provided Ford would grant him an Executive pardon for any subsequent criminal indictments. Assuming that such a procedure would be politically and legally acceptable (and this is by no means certain), it would assure Nixon that as a private citizen he could not be indicted, tried and perhaps convicted...
Earlier, when Commissioner Thrower told then Treasury Secretary David Kennedy in January 1971 that he planned to resign, Thrower asked for a chance to protest to Nixon "about White House attitudes toward the IRS." Kennedy said he would arrange a meeting with the President, but according to Thrower, "Haldeman told him that the President did not like such conferences." Persisting, Thrower expressed his concern to Attorney General John Mitchell, warning that "any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the IRS would be very damaging to him [Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system...
...only Roman Catholic, voted to end obstacles to abortion, then suffered through demands that he be excommunicated. Personally distrusts the press, and in recent years has generally avoided interviews, but devoutly defends First Amendment rights. Is known to dislike Nixon so much that three years ago, when tempted to resign in order to spend more time with his seriously ill wife, he decided to stay in office rather than let the President appoint another conservative. Considered a certain pro-Jaworski vote...
...possible that by "cut the loss" Nixon meant that Mitchell would have to resign. But in expressing his fear that some information might "come out," the President seemed already concerned that an open policy of complete disclosure would be fraught with danger-fully nine months before he claims he first became aware of the Watergate coverup...