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Gotlieb plans to resign from his post as ambassador in January, and will be replaced by Derek H. Burney, now chief of staff to the Canadian Prime Minister...
Fuller, who served as Bush's vice presidential chief of staff since 1985, said he will resign when Bush's transition is completed in January...
...assumed I was breaking the law," Ellsberg said. "Many of you have studied the question of when to resign [and also divulge secrets]....I hope you will all consider risking jail in certain circumstances, and I hope you will indeed do it in certain circumstances...
...serious about that. In 1803 there was a vote in the House on abolishing the vice presidency. It failed, 85 to 27. Handling succession would be easy. We did it with Ford when we had to ((when Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in 1973)). It was simple. But instead of that method, I'd just reconvene the Electoral College. Under the Constitution, theoretically, they pick the President anyway, and the Vice President. It would give some meaning to the Electoral College...
...Johnson had the only seat in the room." Later Goodwin details Johnson's rantings about the Kennedys and "Harvards" and his absurd orders to fire one official or another for perceived acts of disloyalty. At one point, Johnson demanded that one of his top foreign policy advisers, McGeorge Bundy, resign because he appeared on television with a group of college professors...