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...selecting Richard Thornburgh, ex-governor of Pennsylvania who was constitutionally required to resign this January, the IOP has made a "change of emphasis" to "encourage students who are preparing themselves to take a fly at elective office," said Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard Neustadt, a leading presidential scholar and key member of the selection committee...
Apparently, however, Shattuck had been considering his action for some time. The coach told his team this week that he had originally planned to resign after the 1985 campaign, but that he had been so disappointed with the season--Harvard limped home to a 8-6-1 mark--that he decided to stay on one more year...
Sullivan said, "The law is extremely clear that a public official has a duty when he opposes a law to abide by the law or resign...
...routine blood test there showed the young soldier to be partially diabetic. "Just one of those gifts from God," he calls the results. "You sort of resign yourself to going to Vietnam and then you find you can get out of the military for health reasons...
...Secretary of State for War John Profumo was involved with a young "party girl" who was also sharing her favors with a Soviet naval attache. "It was a storm in a teacup," Macmillan later remarked, "but in politics, we sail in paper boats." A prostate ailment forced Macmillan to resign as Prime Minister in 1963. He left Parliament a year later, explaining, "When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away...