Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Disgraced in 1988 after a liaison with a Louisiana call girl, Swaggart, 56, was stopped by police in Indio, Calif., two weeks ago for a traffic violation and found to be in the company of Rosemary Garcia, an admitted streetwalker. That latest foray prompted Swaggart to resign from his Baton Rouge-based ministry last Tuesday to seek "professional counseling and medical care." But the next day the preacher reversed the decision, explaining to his congregation that God told him to return to the pulpit. Swaggart announced to supporters that "the Lord told me it's flat none...
Swaggart's organization has been in decline since rival preacher Marvin Gorman circulated photos of Swaggart visiting a prostitute in a New Orleans motel three years ago. The scandal forced Swaggart to resign from the Assemblies of God, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination, and nearly 200 television stations dropped his weekly program. The ministry took another hit last month when a jury in New Orleans found that Swaggart and others had defamed Gorman with allegations of adulterous behavior and ordered the group to pay $10 million in damages...
...political career to the senate as soon as possible. The typical UC representative is according to Michael Grunwald's Oct. 18 opinion piece, a power-hungry student just looking for some piquant victual to place on his c.v. Members fitting this description are the ones most likely to resign...
...pretend that it is not staring us in the face." Other members have had personal embarrassments as well: Senator Dennis DeConcini is one of the Keating Five; Senator Joseph Biden had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race because of plagiarism; Senator Patrick Leahy had to resign from the Intelligence Committee after admitting he had leaked a confidential document...
...repeated Gates's pledge to resign rather than mislead Congress or acquiesce in something improper, calling it "the strongest and clearest pledge ever made by any nominee...