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While supporting Kissinger, a minority were more than a little skeptical about his threat to resign. "I think he is tired and has been working too hard," said Hubert Humphrey. "I would say to him as a friend: 'Cool it, stay with it. You'll get a fair hearing.' " In saltier fashion, 81-year-old George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commented: "The goddam fool. Can't he take it? Why that's part of the business -being criticized." Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, advised "everyone...
...Choice. Even Kissinger's staunchest supporters agree that his Salzburg press conference was a mistake. By threatening to resign, Kissinger simply added to his troubles. Until he overdramatized the situation, not many people took it too seriously. They wanted explanations, not a resignation. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in particular, was extremely friendly to Kissinger. The committee was perfectly willing to forget about the whole wiretap episode in the interest of letting Kissinger function as Secretary of State. But now that he has demanded another investigation of the affair, the committee has no choice but to comply. Its hearings...
...DANGER THAT WHITES WOULD SET UP RHODESIAN-STYLE GOVERNMENTS IN THE TERRITORIES. "It is a danger. It has receded for the moment, but it cannot be ignored. There is a population there that acquired its rights with difficulty, and sometimes abused these rights, who find it difficult to resign themselves to a new historical situation. This has occurred all over Africa. We are not an exception...
...faculty and student recruitment and divergent opinions on the direction the school should be taking [TIME, Oct. 9, 1972]. One more sign of that uncertainty appeared this month, when Episcopal Bishop J. Brooke Mosley, 58, after 3½ years as Union's president, announced his decision to resign...
Bolingbroke: Are you contented to resign the crown...