Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should resign. Not that we like Vice President Nixon more as a man or as an official. But Nixon is healthy...
THERE are three choices. One is to let the powers of the President be exercised in fact, though not in name, by the White House staff, by some of the more powerful members of the Cabinet, the military chieftains and the Vice President. The second is to resign. This would be an unavoidable decision, were it not that there is a third and much less drastic and tragic course open to him. That is to pass to the Vice President-temporarily and only for the period of his convalescence-the powers and duties of his office, but not the office...
From whom the necessary leadership is to come, if it is to come at all, is a difficult and critical question. The President may decide that he cannot fulfill the demands of the Presidency, and then resign in favor of Vice President Nixon. Even if Mr. Eisenhower remains in office, the Vice President will have to assume a more active role if the executive branch of the government is to provide the necessary leadership. In either case, the need for a stronger and more positive program by the Democratic majority in Congress would seem apparent...
...Benson has reached its peak in the last few months, and can only be expected to increase as the '58 elections draw nearer. Despite the coalition of cattlemen, businessmen, and the American Farm Bureau Federation being formed to save Benson, it is likely that Benson will choose to resign in February...
Leftist Breakaway. Ydigoristas, who had started by protesting a rigged election, now wanted nothing less than total victory. They rattled the palace gates and screamed at the junta, "Resign!" But with the M.D.N. clearly defeated, the general's broad following was beginning to loose its ties. His leftist followers, breaking away, went to the palace and told the junta that they indeed wanted new elections, which they might well win. Ydigoras also made the pilgrimage to the junta, and with the U.S. air and military attachés sitting in at his request as "foreign observers," he stated...