Word: resignations
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...judgment of the people and nowhere to go but the White House or home." In front of his Senate colleagues, with whom he is far more comfortable trading quips about subcommittee chairmen, he sounded positively Reaganesque. While his colleagues looked on in sadness, Dole announced that he would resign on or before June 11, "and I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man." He said he would do it his way, the hard way. "For little has come to me except in the hard way, which is good...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Almost before Bob Dole had finished announcing that he will resign his from the Senate on June 11, a fierce scramble began between two Mississippi Senators over who would replace him as majority leader. Majority whip Trent Lott and Republican Conference chairman Thad Cochran have both declared their candidacy. The two men have been rivals for much of their time together in Congress, which began when both were elected to the House in 1973. They have distinctly different styles and their relationship has been exacerbated by Lott's leapfrogging the senior Cochran and beating him to the position...
MIAMI, FLORIDA: U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey announced Friday that he will resign from his job as a federal prosecutor after a Miami newspaper reported accusations that he bit a topless dancer on the arm. "The strain on my family has been so great, I am returning to private practice and I owe it my family to do this," said Coffey at a press conference at the federal courthouse. Coffey's resignation comes one day after the Miami Herald reported that the prosecutor was under investigation by the Justice Department. According to the Herald, a dancer at the Lipstik Adult Entertainment...
Blanchard also feared the loss of a pension that a court-martial might mean. He offered to resign if the Coast Guard would halt its probe, but on March 10, he was turned down. Three days later, Blanchard met with Vice Admiral Arthur Henn, the Coast Guard's No. 2 officer, to ask for time off. "His face was drawn and a little pale," Henn said. "He was mortified that he had caused such potential embarrassment to the Coast Guard and his family...
...rising star at a county district attorney's office, but then he refused to prosecute a case that could have sent a man with two prior felony convictions to prison for 25 years to life for possession of a minuscule 0.23 gram of cocaine. The D.A. asked him to resign. He's now a public defender, and was given a Conscience Award by the state's A.C.L.U. Says he: "Everyone should stand up for what they believe...