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'I must give myself the sack'

How to resign

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Shaun Usher
Jan 08, 2021
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This morning, for no reason in particular, I was looking at the letter of resignation that brought Richard Nixon’s presidency to a close in 1974: essentially a single, eleven-word sentence on White House stationery—a purely functional document, free of any fat—that was signed by Nixon on the morning of 8 August in order to avoid impeachment. It remains …

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