Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rome. "If we could just do it like this all the time," sighed one top presidential aide. Gone for the moment, although not entirely forgotten, were Haig's early tactical errors: trying to get Reagan to give him total control of foreign policy; threatening, all but publicly, to resign over the selection of Vice President George Bush as chief of crisis management; announcing, in a trembling, unsteady voice on the day President Reagan was shot, that he was "in control" at the White House...
...part of the new emphasis on ethics, Professor Kirk Hanson focuses on notable cases like that of Carl Kotchian, the former vice chairman of Lockheed, who was accused of bribing Japanese officials and forced to resign. Says Hanson: "We debate where responsibility lies in a corporation. To your employees, whose jobs might be lost if the company loses the contract? To the Japanese people, whose government is involved in corruption? To competitors
...Columbia River flooded his fields. Posted to bleak Fort Humboldt on the California coast, Captain Grant pined for his wife Julia, the daughter of a Missouri country gentleman, and their two small boys. Depression led to drink, but it was the loneliness, not liquor, that prompted him to resign his commission. Working his father-in-law's land near St. Louis, he failed as a farmer; moving to town, he came to grief as a rent collector...
Agnew's most serious legal problems had seemed at an end in 1973, when he agreed to resign the vice presidency and pay a $10,000 fine on pleading no contest to tax evasion charges. The unpaid taxes were traced to his failure to report as income the kickbacks that he supposedly received between 1967 and 1972 for the awarding of certain engineering contracts. But as part of the 1973 agreement, the Justice Department refrained from forcing him to admit any guilt in the alleged kickback scheme. Ever since 1976, however, Agnew has been fighting off a suit brought...
...Father Egbert Delaney believes that Satan is a woman. He told me as much and I think be ought to be made to resign. It's an insult to women," Miss Young says...