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While negotiating effectively with Ford, Nixon was rebuffed on another front as he struggled to get his personal affairs in order. His perfunctory resignation from the California Bar Association was opposed by that group on grounds that his letter did not even concede that he was under investigation in disbarment proceedings. The turndown keeps that investigation alive, unless it is overruled by the California Supreme Court. Nixon contends that he has no plans to practice law and intends also to resign from the New York Bar Association. It too has initiated a preliminary disbarment probe and is likely to echo...
...Supreme Commander of NATO. He recognizes the hostility within the Ford staff. "I feel like a Martian mutation?I've got so much scar tissue," he says wryly. While Haig performed heroically in holding Nixon's White House together in the last days and helped persuade Nixon to resign, suspicions of the general's pro-Nixon sentiments are not groundless. He had, after all, helped push the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, out of office after playing a devious role in the phony Stennis compromise on the Nixon tapes. He had also managed to disregard much of the evidence against...
...disagree, he first applied pure charm. If that failed, he fell back on the ruthless use of power assiduously accumulated throughout his career. When he was up against a man who ranked him, the succession of Governors and mayors he ostensibly worked for, he simply and repeatedly threatened to resign if he did not get his way. Whether these politicians liked or hated Moses, they simply could not do without a man who got so much done...
...University announced in mid-August that Daniel J. Robbins, lecturer on Fine Arts, will resign from his post as director of the Fogg Art Museum this month. There were strong indications that Robbins's decision to give up the position he has held for the past three years was prompted by conflicts between him and some members of the Fine Arts Department and the central administration...
When Ferraro announced in August he would resign at year's end, he declined to specify reasons for his decision and refused to comment on charges that he has mismanaged the CHA. He said only that "personal reasons" led to his decision to leave the housing authority...