Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pennsylvania Republican Senator Richard Schweiker, urging the President to resign, said: "I cannot remain silent in the face of the now obvious moral corrosion destroying the presidency." Senator Marlow Cook, a Kentucky Republican, acknowledged that Nixon must "realistically contemplate" resignation, adding: "The President has irretrievably lost any claim to the confidence of the American people...
...Razor's Edge." But Republicans are generally agreed on what they would like the President to do on his own: resign. As they gathered in anxious huddles last week, as their mail piled up from angry constituents, they recognized that the President's troubles were also their own. The longer he clings to office, the harder it will be for them to win re-election in the fall. "We're on the razor's edge," said a Mid-Atlantic G.O.P. Congressman. "These are the facts of life." In the meantime, many Republicans feared that the President's delaying tactics were...
...were his lawyer," says Law Professor John Flynn of the University of Utah, "I don't think I would tell him to resign until he had a clear-cut deal to avoid criminal prosecution." Massachusetts Trial Lawyer Richard K. Donahue, a former aide in the Kennedy White House, counsels that "at this point the President would be in a stronger position to bargain than in a month or two from now. You don't make a deal when the jury is out." But making such a deal may present insuperable problems...
Thus, in the narrowest view, the President has little legal incentive to resign now. But Nixon's perspective must necessarily be broader as he thinks about his problem, since his situation is unique. Going the full route of impeachment and trial in the Senate could well generate further evidence against him, even if he were not convicted. It could also sharpen the public perception of criminal culpability, and thus increase the pressure to pursue him in the courts after he left office. The impeachment ordeal is not one that the public or Congress welcomes, and an early resignation could...
...past few months, rumors have buzzed through Bonn that a tired and discouraged Willy Brandt would soon resign as Chancellor. Yet West Germany, and indeed all of Western Europe, was caught by surprise last week when the 60-year-old leader abruptly announced that he was leaving office. The ostensible cause of his resignation was the scandal that followed last month's arrest of Günter Guillaume, a close personal aide who confessed to being an East German spy. (TIME...