Word: resignations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week after Hyman’s announcement, however, Vice President for Alumni Relations and Development Donella M. Rapier said she will step down this summer and suggested that Faust had asked her to resign...
...Washington, scandals metastasize, growing and changing until we can't remember what they were about in the beginning. A bungled burglary became a cancer on the presidency, forcing Richard Nixon to resign in disgrace. A money-losing Arkansas real estate deal led to Monica, a blue dress and Bill Clinton's impeachment. Already, the furor over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys has shifted focus from the crass but essentially routine exercise of political patronage to the essential project of George W. Bush's presidency: its deliberate and aggressive efforts to expand and protect Executive power...
...point, for example, staffers confronted the possibility that former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins might testify before Congress. "I don't think he should," Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, declared in a Feb. 1, 2007 e-mail to a fellow staffer. "How would he answer: Did you resign voluntarily? Who told you? What did they say?" Cummins was dumped as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., and replaced by Tim Griffin, a former assistant to top White House aide Karl Rove. Sampson's e-mail also noted additional queries that Cummins risked having to respond to in Congressional testimony...
More immediately accountable was the Attorney General's chief of staff, who did resign. And then there was Miers. She was no longer at the White House, so cable news ran old footage of her, attaching her face to yet another Bush fiasco and reminding us yet again of the risk involved when Presidents value loyalty over competence. Relishing the spectacle, Democrats are now demanding that four White House officials, including Rove, and six senior aides to Gonzales testify under oath. And, of course, Miers. If they balk, Democrats will issue subpoenas. At which point some of the President...
...interview with The Crimson in October, soon after he had announced his plan to resign as Dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) effective this July, Joseph B. Martin said, “I want to be remembered first as a dean of students.” With this weekend’s announcement of HMS’s plan to double its expenditure on compensation for hospital-based teachers, Martin may have found a roundabout way to solidify that image in the eyes of HMS doctors for years to come. HMS currently budgets $8 million per year...