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...perhaps Eugene McCarthy. The big question is still whether McCarthy would accept. "It's highly unlikely," said one McCarthy aide. "Gene conceivably could take No. 2 to save the country-but to save Hubert Humphrey?" Several members of McCarthy's staff would probably resign in disgust if the Senator joined the H.H.H. ticket; the reaction of his youthful followers would be apoplectic...
...group of citizens, including one Harvard professor, has written a letter to 2000 members of the local draft boards in the Boston area, asking the members to resign their positions on the boards...
BDRG says it intends to make this list of board members available to neighborhood groups, in order that parents, clergymen, businessmen, professionals, and student registrants may put pressure on board members to resign...
...struck in the May revolts, when Pompidou and De Gaulle had opposing ideas about how to bring France back to normal. De Gaulle wanted to hold a referendum on his participation scheme, which he felt would give the strikers and rioters the concessions that they wanted. Pompidou threatened to resign if De Gaulle did that, and pressed him instead to dissolve the National Assembly and call new elections. Many politicians believed that Pompidou also warned that if France did not heed De Gaulle's appeal for order, "Mon Genéral,-you must leave...
Then he clashed with De Gaulle over the scheduled execution of a leader in the Algerian generals' putsch. De Gaulle gave in, granting clemency, when Pompidou threatened to resign. From then on, Pompidou determined to venture farther away from De Gaulle's towering shadow. In 1967, he ordered most of his government, himself included, to enter Assembly elections; elected from his native Auvergne, he finally gained a local power base...