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Richard Nixon, whose silently whirling recorders had taped unsuspecting visitors to the Oval Office, was unaware that a television camera and microphone were recording his own words and movements as he prepared for a momentous act: his Aug. 8, 1974, broadcast in which he announced that he would resign next day from the presidency. A CBS-TV technician, during the technical check, made the videotape and later gave it to a friend, TV Actor Tom Hallick, who made it available to TIME. It shows that Nixon was in an astonishingly light mood as he fought the tension of the grim...
Their personal animus aside, Haig and Kirkpatrick disagree frequently on substantive policy matters. Kirkpatrick, for example, threatened to resign last January after Haig refused to push for stronger sanctions by America's European allies following the military crackdown in Poland. In addition, critics claim, she has not been a particularly adept U.N. Ambassador. Yet, as the only woman in the Cabinet and as the most prominent neo-Conservative in the Administration, Kirkpatrick remains politically valuable. Unfortunately, the spat between her and Haig not only diminishes the effectiveness of both officials but raises substantial questions about the direction and intent...
...distance himself from Donovan threatened to make it "a shoestring Lance case." That was a reference to Jimmy Carter's refusal to abandon his Georgia buddy Bert Lance, whom he had appointed Budget Director, until disclosures about Lance's wheeler-dealer banking practices forced Lance to resign his Cabinet post...
...subsequently urged that he be appointed to the Cabinet. But a White House aide conceded that "the level of embarrassment is growing." Indeed, both Indiana Republican Senator Dan Quayle and Glenn Watts, head of the 650,000-member Communications Workers of America, last week called upon the Secretary to resign...
...Germany, beginning in late 1983. The decision was coupled with a demand that the U.S. and the Soviet Union open negotiations aimed at reducing the number of atomic weapons based in Europe. Last May, just as the Western European antimissile movement began gaming strength, the Chancellor had threatened to resign if left-wing party members succeeded in withdrawing the S.P.D.'s backing for NATO's Doppelbeschluss, or two-track decision...