Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marquis remained on the margins of politics until he was 72, when the nation turned to him for leadership after the 1830 rising against Charles X. But Lafayette dithered in restoring order. The Due d'Orléans emerged to become King Louis-Philippe and forced Lafayette to resign as commander of the National Guard. "The sad truth was, no one really disliked Lafayette," says Bernier, "but no one wanted him back." He managed to stay in the spotlight, however, speaking out forcefully for such causes as free public education, independence movements in Greece and Poland and the perfection...
Feldstein reportedly received warnings from White House officials to withhold public criticism of Reagan's economic policies or resign...
...first, Speakes responded to questions about Feldstein's career with some care. Asked whether or not the Chairman would be asked to resign. Speakes replied, "I do not think they will actually ask him to resign, I don't think they will ask him face to face." But then the secretary revealed that he thought Feldstein had been excluded from a high level economic luncheon that was going on at the time. When a reporter noted that Feldstein was in fact in attendance, Speakes gallantly sent an aide to find out why. When the aide returned, Speakes read his note...
...pursued the investigation, interviewing members of the President's senior staff and Cabinet for up to two hours each. But there is no evidence that polygraph tests have yet been used. Secretary of State George Shultz was among those who let the White House know that he would resign before allowing himself to be strapped to such a machine. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese last week stressed that the leak could have jeopardized McFarlane's life in the volatile Middle East. But some aides suggested that the probe was part of the protracted power struggle between Baker and Clark...
Prior refused to resign and dismissed calls for greatly tougher security measures as either impractical or likely to hand the I.R.A. new propaganda weapons. Instead, he promised a modest redeployment of the 10,000 British troops in Northern Ireland, with more undercover antiterrorist patrols by police and the elite Special Air Service. In an attempt to lure the Unionists back into the Assembly, Prior also invited four of Northern Ireland's political parties to talks on security. Meanwhile, in a radio interview, the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Garret Fitzgerald, a Catholic, seemed close to tears...