Word: resignment
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...midnight Bowles headed over to the Morris suite. Morris' wife Eileen McGann told TIME last week that her husband had decided earlier that night to resign. But several Clinton aides say he argued into the night, trying to tough it out and keep his job. It wasn't until 3 a.m. that Bowles could call Panetta with the news that Morris had offered his resignation. Panetta let the President sleep, to make sure that he would be at his best for his convention acceptance speech...
...Gennifer Flowers' alleged affair with Bill Clinton, throwing a major scare into his campaign just before the New Hampshire primary. And last week it was the Star's sensational account of Dick Morris' alleged trysts with a call girl that prompted the President's top political strategist to resign...
...Releasing it to other papers before its actual publication, Bunton insists, was simply an effort to protect the Star's scoop after Morris had been alerted to the story. Said Bunton: "The White House spin doctors might well try and do some damage control, and Dick Morris might resign quietly for personal reasons before we came out. We had five days before we were going on sale. So we got a bit nervous...
TIME: Then why did you resign...
...just the sort of loyal opposition Peres is expected to provide; to date, he's been missing in action, letting other members of the party mount the offensive. "He's still head of the Labor Party, much to the dismay of younger leaders, who were expecting him to resign as party leader," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "After the May election, a lot of people thought his career would be over and he would retire gracefully." Peres has stayed on, waiting for a split in a fragile Netanyahu coalition that relies on the support of both religious...