Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumbling down Pennsylvania Avenue in his limousine last week when an aide showed him a piece of wire copy, quoting Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, who was traveling with Reagan on Air Force One. While saying he would wait for the McKay report before suggesting Meese should resign, Weicker snorted, "I've been battling the son of a bitch ever since he became Attorney General. I don't like him." Meese read the lines and chuckled. "I've known Lowell for 35 years," he said. "I went to college with him ((at Yale)). He hasn't changed...
...committee was elected by the faculty at a meeting on May 12, two weeks after Vorenberg announced he would resign after the 1988-89 academic year. Dean search committees have traditionally been appointed by the outgoing dean, but in compliance with a 1984 faculty resolution, this committee was the first such board in Law School history elected by the faculty...
Kadar, 75, who had been expected to resign as general secretary, was named to the largely ceremonial post of party president. The changes were announced after a three-day national party conference...
...reports he was not authorized to see. So he gave the document to Richard Perle, then an aide to Senator Henry Jackson, later an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "The study contained some very sensitive intelligence," recalls former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who forced Sullivan to resign from the agency. Hardly slowed by the episode, Sullivan moved to Capitol Hill as an aide to Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas...
...president gave a warm endorsement of Meese, his friend of more than 20 years who is under increasing pressure to resign...