Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence for the House to impeach the President, though by 49% to 38% they said Nixon's actions were not serious enough to justify the Senate's removing him from office. A survey conducted earlier for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., found that 55% of Americans wanted Nixon to resign or be impeached, up from 39% in November (see story page...
...added that he does not believe Nixon should resign. "I do not favor resignation. If the president is innocent, there are no grounds for urging him to resign...
...expect him to resign," McGovern said, "and I think Congress has to stand up and have the courage to pursue this inquiry and make a finding under the impeachment clause...
...million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod continues to be racked by dissension between moderates and conservatives over a cluster of issues involving among other matters, literal biblical interpretations. Last week four members of the church's 18-man mission-board staff resigned, partly in protest against "the oppressive use of power" in the denomination's hierarchy, headed by conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus. Two weeks ago, the staffs director, William H. Kohn, quit, and two more members will resign when they return from trips overseas. The departures from the staff, which administers all church mission activity at home...
...recent weeks, the press has indulged in Kissinger coverage by adulation. Reporters and editors have placed the secretary of state on a pedestal. When a report drifted out of Washington two months ago that Kissinger might resign if Nixon were impeached, conservative newspapers rushed to their editorial pages with words of caution. Kissinger must stay, the papers warned; at a time of national crisis, the United States cannot afford to lose both Nixon--the choreographer of detente with Russia and China--and Kissinger...