Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon's top domestic aide, and three lesser members of the White House "plumbers" team got off to a dramatic start in Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell's Washington courtroom last week. Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill charged that a few weeks before Ehrlichman was forced to resign last year, he had secretly removed three incriminating memos from a file on the plumbers in the White House-but David Young, a co-director of the secret investigating unit, had foresightedly retained copies. Said Merrill to the jury, which consists of nine blacks and three whites: "Mr. Ehrlichman lied...
...fountains and frescoed ceilings of the villa, designed by Raphael for Pope Clement VII, provided the setting in which the Medici Pope wheedled, wheeled and dealed. Last week, that atmosphere temporarily returned. Caught in a political crisis and under orders from President Giovanni Leone to resolve it rather than resign, representatives of the parties in Premier Mariano Rumor's ruling center-left coalition gathered in the Villa Madama's splendid isolation for a two-day summit. Medicis and Borgias would have enjoyed the infighting and cross-dealing...
...faculty and student recruitment and divergent opinions on the direction the school should be taking [TIME, Oct. 9, 1972]. One more sign of that uncertainty appeared this month, when Episcopal Bishop J. Brooke Mosley, 58, after 3½ years as Union's president, announced his decision to resign...
Bolingbroke: Are you contented to resign the crown...
King Richard: Aye, no-no, aye, for I must nothing be,/ Therefore no no, for [if] I resign to thee/ ... What more remains...