Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from Bob Dole: that Clinton had no time to lose in lobbying the Senate against conviction. That afternoon the President started making calls to Senate friends such as Ted Kennedy and Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Clinton accepted that he was going to be impeached but insisted he wouldn't resign or even admit to perjury because he did not believe he had lied. What he wanted now was assurance that there were enough secure votes to fend off conviction in a Senate in which ouster would require a dozen Democrats to join all the Republicans. That large a defection seemed...
...help; the story of his adulterous affairs was about to go public. At midday the two men began conferring on how to handle the impending blowup. Within a few hours, the Speaker-designate had decided to go public with his problems before anyone else did. Livingston considered offering to resign in the conference meeting; if he did, DeLay planned to stand up, praise Livingston for his courage and refuse his resignation...
...been impeached and removed long ago. But when the New York Times went looking for this steel-jawed minority, it also found Clinton?s worst fear: a subset of those job-approval groupies that nevertheless finds the scandal -- and the President himself -- a wearisome embarrassment and wants him to resign. They may never see that day. But come February, a combination of the the virulent and the merely nauseated could provide Republicans with the coalition they?ve been waiting...
...Livingston had meant to provide an example. After making what he probably knew were two vain pleas -- one for the President to resign and one for the House to heal its divisions ?- the Speaker-elect of the House told Clinton that "I can only challenge you in such fashion if I am prepared to heed my own words." Livingston, in front of a shocked House, abruptly quit -- and drew a bipartisan standing ovation. There was already a rumored replacement by day's end, an obscure Illinois Republican named Dennis Hastert...
Preemptive strikes don't just come against Middle Eastern countries. Thursday it came from the House, where the Hill newsletter Roll Call reports that House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston (R-La.) told the Republican leadership that he has had extramarital affairs in the past and offered to resign his post. The leadership did not accept. "I have decided to inform my colleagues and constituents that during my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie, I have on occasion strayed from my marriage and doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family," Livingston told Roll Call. He went...