Word: resignment
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...could feel the tension more directly than the President-elect. He had fought segregation within the congregation, but he was reluctant to quit the church in which he had worshiped all his life. Just before the election, he insisted: "I can't resign from the human race because there's discrimination, and I don't intend to resign from my own church because there's discrimination." But Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, Carter's closest black adviser, said that if Clennon King were not attempting to integrate the church, "I would have...
...Republican National Chairman and risk a damaging intraparty bloodbath or to settle for someone acceptable to other factions. The post is now held by lowan Mary Louise Smith, who was selected by Gerald Ford after he became President in 1974. But she is expected to follow tradition and resign voluntarily, probably at next month's executive committee meeting. Her successor would then be named at the full Republican National Committee meeting scheduled for January...
Ebert, who announced his decision to resign last year, said this week he believes Bok's choice is a "superb" one, adding that he had felt it best that he avoid affecting the president's choice...
...respectable Democrat should have triumphed. While Gerald Ford could hardly be held accountable, the Republicans had presided over a lingering end to the Viet Nam War, had both produced and been victimized by the nation's worst political scandal, had seen their party's President and Vice President resign in disgrace, and had held office during the deepest postwar recession. Ford had pardoned the man who appointed...
...reaction was skeptical: "Remember the Yale story, just wait to see what the Globe has," said most local editors. At the Globe, however, editors decided to keep the DiGrazia story out of the first editions--thereby not allowing the Herald enough time to use the story. DiGrazia did resign, and the Herald's reputation began to improve...