Word: resignations
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Richard Nixon, whose silently whirling recorders had taped unsuspecting visitors to the Oval Office, was unaware that a television camera and microphone were recording his own words and movements as he prepared for a momentous act: his Aug. 8, 1974, broadcast in which he announced that he would resign next day from the presidency. A CBS-TV technician, during the technical check, made the videotape and later gave it to a friend, TV Actor Tom Hallick, who made it available to TIME. It shows that Nixon was in an astonishingly light mood as he fought the tension of the grim...
...distance himself from Donovan threatened to make it "a shoestring Lance case." That was a reference to Jimmy Carter's refusal to abandon his Georgia buddy Bert Lance, whom he had appointed Budget Director, until disclosures about Lance's wheeler-dealer banking practices forced Lance to resign his Cabinet post...
...subsequently urged that he be appointed to the Cabinet. But a White House aide conceded that "the level of embarrassment is growing." Indeed, both Indiana Republican Senator Dan Quayle and Glenn Watts, head of the 650,000-member Communications Workers of America, last week called upon the Secretary to resign...
Among the mynad forms and documents he had to submit was a simple letter from his place of work, certifying that he did, in fact, work there. When Kats requested this letter, the assistant director of the institute told him to resign first, warning that "bad things would happen" if he didn't. Knowing that it would take many months before his application was even considered. Kats refused to resign. After three weeks, the assistant director finally gave Kats the letter, telling him. "You'll be sorry." Two months later, as Kats was walking home one day at noon, three...
...Germany, beginning in late 1983. The decision was coupled with a demand that the U.S. and the Soviet Union open negotiations aimed at reducing the number of atomic weapons based in Europe. Last May, just as the Western European antimissile movement began gaming strength, the Chancellor had threatened to resign if left-wing party members succeeded in withdrawing the S.P.D.'s backing for NATO's Doppelbeschluss, or two-track decision...