Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Motel in Custer. McGovern invited Witcover to his cabin for an hour-and-a-half interview. Witcover's lengthy piece conveyed McGovern's message: public reaction to the disclosure of Eagleton's past health problems has been so negative that Eagleton must withdraw -voluntarily. McGovern told Witcover that he was confident of Eagleton's capacity to be President, but that Eagleton's failure to disclose the medical background reflects on McGovern's own credibility. Credibility has been McGovern's rallying cry in the campaign. Also, he had said during the campaign that...
...with Eleanor here." I then spelled out to him and his wife, as I spelled out to Mankiewicz, the health thing. I added: "George, if this comes to be an embarrassment or an impediment or hindrance to you, you just ask-you say the word-and I'll withdraw." He said: "Oh, no, no, no. Nothing like that. I understand...
...vote was actually a revision of Senator Howard W. Cannon's (D-Nev.) amendment to Mansfield's proposal Cannon proposed an amendment to withdraw troops from South Vietnam 90 days after passage of the legislation provided Hanoi agreed to the release of American POW's and an accounting of those missing in action...
...lives in any way I could." He had hoped that he might talk the Proves into tearing down the Catholic barricades in Londonderry that the Ulster Protestants resent so deeply. Despite the I.R.A.'s demands that Britain move all of its troops out of Catholic neighborhoods immediately and withdraw all soldiers from Northern Ireland by Jan. 1, 1975-conditions that Whitelaw described as "unacceptable"-thft negotiations were expected to continue. The end of the truce also quashed, at least for the time being, this glimmer of hope for an eventual reconciliation. Whitelaw's announcement of the discussions infuriated...
BELFAST, Ire.--Britain offered to withdraw its troops from Belfast's battle-ravaged Lenadoon area Monday if Roman Catholics persuaded Irish Republican Army gunmen...