Word: resignment
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...meant resounding defeat for his party in the coming congressional elections, he indicated, he would not resign. Once again confusing his personal fate with that of the institution of the presidency, Nixon declared: "I want my party to succeed, but more important, I want the presidency to survive." And, Nixon added, "I do not expect to be impeached." Later in the week he told a gathering of cheering young Republicans, "You learn from your defeats, and then you go on to fight again?never quit, never quit...
Kalmbach remained the President's lawyer until his pleas of guilty last week. Only then did he resign from the firm that had soared so high so fast since the election of 1968. He also quit as chairman and a director of the Bank of Newport, which he founded two years ago. Kalmbach now faces the likelihood that he will be disbarred, but even if he never practiced again, he would likely remain a wealthy man: he has sizable real estate holdings-mainly apartment houses and office buildings-in California and Hawaii...
...seats and their comfortable 16-seat majority in the last Parliament. The upstart Liberals got their biggest vote in history, but it converted into disproportionately few seats. Confronted with those agonizingly close results, Prime Minister Edward Heath advised Queen Elizabeth that, contrary to British custom, he would not resign in favor of Labor's Harold Wilson but would try to keep his embattled party in power by forming a new government...
Under the unwritten rules of the British constitution, Heath did not necessarily have to resign if the other party failed to get a majority. But Harold Wilson had historical precedent on his side in contending that it was his right to form the next government-indeed, never before in similar circumstances had a British Prime Minister refused to step down. As Heath sat silent in No.10 Downing Street, Wilson issued a terse statement from Labor headquarters a few blocks away. Underscoring the urgent need for a government that could deal promptly and decisively with the coal miners' strike...
Rumored Ploy. Heath remained closeted all day with his chief advisers, struggling desperately to work out a successful strategy. One rumored ploy: Heath would resign and pass the party leadership-and prime ministership -to William Whitelaw, his Employment Secretary and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The theory was that the popular Whitelaw might be a more acceptable choice to hold the Tories in power than Heath. Finally, just before 8 p.m., Heath made the short journey to Buckingham Palace, where he informed the Queen that he intended to explore ways of carrying on his administration...