Resignations Quotes
Referring to the potential political impact of the resignation of U. S. Attorney, Edward Meese:
President Reagan had asked Ford, Nixon and Jimmy Carter to attend the funeral of assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sedat. In the plane flying to Egypt, Nixon was trying to play off the ex-presidents against each other, and making nasty remarks about various political figures. The others including Ford were offended.
Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
At the height of the Watergate scandal, the president wanted special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, because Cox was developing evidence against the president. The attorney general, Elliot Richardson, refused to fire Cox and resigned. The chief of staff then turned to the deputy attorney general, William Ruckelshaus, who also refused and resigned. Finally, the Solicitor General, next in line of authority, agreed to fire the special prosecutor. These events happened on a Saturday night and became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre”. This event persuaded most Americans that Nixon was guilty of felonies and was desperately trying to cover things up. Congress would include “obstruction of justice” in it’s list of crimes that they would have impeached Nixon for had he not resigned.
Response to a writer who asked him if Saudi Arabia had tried to convince Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war in Iraq.
Hartman had drafted the Inauguration Speech for Ford to use the next day, when President Nixon would resign in disgrace. When Ford reviewed the speech to make his personal changes he questioned the use of “our long national nightmare is over” and thought that he should not use it. Hartman reacted very strongly as the quotation demonstrates. After much discussion, Ford decided to leave it in, and it became the most quoted line of that speech and perhaps his entire career. Years later he expressed his gratitude to Hartman for not only writing the line, but taking such a firm position to persuade Ford to use it. See {641353} for Ford’s inaugural address quotation that became so famous.
In 2017 President Donald Trump, in resposnse to a Nazi, KKK, & White Supremicists "March" in Charlottesville, Virginia and a citizen counter protest, in whcih one of the White Supremicists ran down in a car a number of citizen protesters killing one, equated the two groups be saying that there was violence on both sides. Most of the country was outraged, and Frazier was the first member of the President's Business Advisory Council resigned in protest, making this statement. Many did so also, and Trump in a desparate effort to avoid the embarassing news each time there was anotehr resignation be a leading CEO, disbanded his 3 citizen advisorty councils.
He was a conservative, Republican Congressman from Georgia when he made this statement complaining about the wast of mmoney by Federal Officials and bureaucrats. The thing that made this common complaint memorable is that several years later, he was appointed by President Donald Trump as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In less than a year in the office, he was forced to resign [fired] in disgrace for wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars chartering private airplanes for himself and his staff including one where he spent $25,000 to charter a plane from Washington DC to Philadelphia -- a two hour drive in his government car, less than $100 for the Amtrak train or $10 by the Greayhound bus. The scandal that erupted was made worse by the hypocricy.
Maria, after being ousted by her former friend, General Baldomero Espartero, comments on his lack of respect.
I have decided to resign totally and finally all official positions. I shall return to private life.
Many Egyptians were fearful of the power vacuum that might ensue would destroy the country. Many asked Nasser to change his mind, and he did. To this day no one knows whether or not the resignation was sincere or was a ploy. Upon resuming power, Nasser arrested his old colleague, Marshal Amin, who was blamed for the fiasco even though he was following Nasser’s instructions.
