Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April drew to a close, in almost every conversation, Nixon asked me in his elliptical manner whether Haldeman and Ehrlichman should resign, without giving me any reason for it. It was a strange query. Not once did Nixon tell me his version of events. He maintained in private the same posture he had adopted in public, that every revelation...
...Sunday, April 29,1 was in New York when I received a phone call from Nixon at Camp David. Nearly incoherent with grief, he told me that he had just asked Haldeman and Ehrlichman to resign. Richard Kleindienst, the Attorney General, had also submitted his resignation. John Dean was being fired. The President said he needed me more than ever. He hoped I was abandoning any thought of resignation...
...week after the Water gate break-in-left no doubt that Nixon was familiar with the coverup; he may in fact have ordered it. Impeachment was now certain, conviction highly probable. Haig's role now-and to some extent mine-was to ease Nixon's decision to resign, to give him the psychological support to do the necessary...
...first plan, which led three Review editors to resign after it was adopted last February, would have used rigid quotas to bring racial balance to the Review. The top four students in each of four sections of the first-year class would gain Review membership, the top ranked minority student in the top 25 students in each in each section would join them. If there were no minority students in the top 25, the Review would select a woman instead...
...Jehovah had only one chosen organization? Did he question the official End-times chronology? Franz sought to avoid confrontation but could "only bend so far." It was not enough. Opponents were unable to get a two-thirds majority for his disfellowshipping on the spot, but he was forced to resign from Bethel. In all, about a dozen officials were purged, almost certainly the worst doctrinal crisis Watch Tower headquarters has ever faced...