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Expelled member Beys said yesterday he will notseek almost certain reinstatement and would henceeffectively resign from the council...
...Vietnam, restored relations with China, the first major arms agreement with the Soviet Union and much more. But he will always be remembered, as he was at his death last week at 81, as the chief perpetrator -- and chief victim -- of the Watergate scandal, the only President ever to resign in disgrace...
...Nixon made his last televised statement % from the White House: "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President I must put the interests of America first . . . Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow." There remained then only a series of farewells. He spoke once again of winning and losing. "We think that when we suffer a defeat, that all is ended. Not true. It is only a beginning, always...
...shield himself. A Pentagon inspector-general report found otherwise, but Kelso decided against a further inquiry to sort out the discrepancies in favor of stepping down two months early. He bargained for a statement of praise from the Secretary of the Navy, who earlier had urged him to resign for a "failure of leadership." The Senate would then vote him a four-star retirement rather than two stars, and full pension, $84,340 a year...
...with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) for forging stable links with the U.S.S.R. and China. In 1973 and 1974, Nixon was on our cover 14 times as TIME meticulously traced the unraveling of the Watergate plot. In November 1973 we published our first editorial, which called upon Nixon to resign for the good of the country...