Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president of alumni affairs and development, yesterday decided to resign from Harvard, effective June 30, to assume the post of vice president for health sciences at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City...
...would Israel ever tolerate a Palestinian state ruled by a "bloodthirsty enemy who kills women and children and enjoys and promises to continue it." He did offer one small joke: "I have sensational news for you. I spent the whole day in Washington and nobody asked me to resign...
...part of legislators, who have suddenly discovered that they are a very fallible lot. Another legislator, also a Democrat, has admitted to receiving $5,000 from a dog-racing promoter in early 1977, eleven weeks before introducing a bill to legalize that sport. He has been asked to resign, but has not done...
...also knew that he had to resign. Instead of breaking the news himself, he called in his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and had her tell his family. When his sons-in-law, Edward Cox and David Eisenhower, argued the case for delaying his decision at least for a few days, Nixon recalls, "I said that this was just like a Greek tragedy: you could not end it in the middle of the second act or the crowd would throw chairs at the stage. In other words, the tragedy had to be seen through until the end as fate would have...
...Wednesday, August 7, he said to Kissinger, "Just as there is no question but that I must go, there is no question but that you must stay." Then, Nixon adds, "At one point Kissinger blurted out, 'If they harass you after you leave office, I am going to resign as Secretary of State...