Word: resignations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush went silent--annoying Senators who wanted to give Lott an embrace as well as those who wanted a push. Instead Bush played the old Washington game he claims to disdain: letting surrogates put out the message. Anonymous White House aides leaked daily that Bush wanted Lott to resign, while Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's brother Jeb, the Florida Governor, went public with anti-Lott comments...
...read, in part: "If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him; speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember--an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness ... If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault, why--resign your position and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content." The copies she received had "resign your position" heavily underlined. "It wasn't even anonymous!" she says. "They signed their names! Even though that is not on the walls anymore, that is still in the hearts...
...tried to explain the accounting strategy and asked for more time to fully support his argument. The committee members gave him the weekend. But he could not convince them. On June 24 the audit committee told Sullivan and controller Myers that they would be terminated if they did not resign before the board meeting the next...
...Pundits like William Bennett called for Lott's ouster from the Republican leadership, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page declared he had "played right into the hands" of the left. Even Lott's hometown paper, whose publisher these days is an African-American woman, called for him to resign as Senate leader. Lott, however, was convinced that his written statements of regret were sufficient to put out the fire, and so he flew with his wife to the Florida Keys for a long-planned getaway...
Soon after the bankruptcy blessing, Law departed discreetly on his second unannounced trip to Rome. In his absence, 58 of the archdiocese's 600 active priests signed a letter calling on him to resign. "If there was a single item that was unprecedented, it was the letter from the priests," says Jim Post, president of Voice of the Faithful, a lay group formed in response to the crisis, which also called for Law to step down last week. "That's the constituency that is always the last to stay and stand with their bishop." Law read the signs. "In April...