Word: resignment
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...this on his own?" says a White House official with no great affection for the colonel. "Then you don't know Ollie North. He can fix you with those innocent blue eyes and tell the biggest lies with a straight face." North claims that he twice offered to resign this year when congressional inquiries into private contra funding discomfited the White House...
...undepleted Louvre when his work on the Left Bank was over. Giscard had to take the unusual step of inviting the Louvre's curators to the Elysee for lunch in order to persuade them to give up some of "their" paintings, and even at that several threatened to resign then and there...
...Neill, who has been a point-man forDemocratic opposition to Reagan for the past sixyears, added that the issue does not appear to bea Watergate-type scandal that will force thepresident to resign...
Boxed in, Reagan made the flat statement Shultz had wanted and accompanied it with a kind of come-home-all-is-forgiven message. The President denied that Shultz had ever discussed resigning with him. In fact, said Reagan, "he has made it plain that he will stay as long as I want him -- and I want him." Most probably Shultz never did make an explicit threat to resign -- but then he did not have to. The President could ill afford to have it said that his Iranian policy had driven his highly respected Secretary of State out of the Administration...
...aimed at returning it to its original role as a body that coordinates advice reaching the President. Some Administration officials think that Reagan will undertake a housecleaning of the NSC on his own. There is speculation that Poindexter may be made a scapegoat and forced to resign...