Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sitting in his office Friday afternoon, the chief of staff pronounced himself vindicated by the Tower report: "1,250 lines on 'What Was Wrong' and I'm mentioned in 15, less than 2%," he declared. He confided to TIME Correspondents David Beckwith and Barrett Seaman that he planned to resign Monday, on his own schedule. But he was clearly unsettled. No, he didn't know who his successor would be, and no, he hadn't been invited to a Reagan summit that night to discuss presidential strategy...
Weinberger, who has served as Secretary ofDefense throughout the Reagan Administration, saidhe has no plans to resign. But he said that he isunsure how long he will remain in his post at theDefense Department. "We don't have tenure, and godknows I don't want it," said the Harvard graduate
Harvard Nobel physicist Carlo Rubbia threatened to resign earlier this month after his colleague and fellow Nobel Laureate Sheldon L. Glashow praised a controversial book which criticizes him, a source close to Rubbia said yesterday...
However, several professors and staff members in the Physics Department said they had heard Rubbia threatened to resign. Glashow refused to comment on whether Rubbia had threatened to resign but added that such action would be in character for his colleague...
...switch in the President's testimony stirred new speculation that he is being manipulated by his chief of staff. Once again there were calls for Regan's head. This time the President responded by saying that if the chief of staff wanted to resign, he would not try to dissuade him. Though Regan's well- publicized feud with Nancy Reagan deepened, and rumors persisted that he would leave in the next week or so, the chief of staff expressed his determination to stay...