Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...UNIVERSITIES: "As long as the universities have no conception of themselves other than the supermarket conception, they will have to resign themselves to the fact that people will walk in off the street, buy a box of Wheaties, and walk...
...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...