{"id":60,"date":"2008-01-15T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T19:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2008\/01\/15\/principled-resignations\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T19:09:05","slug":"principled-resignations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2008\/01\/15\/principled-resignations\/","title":{"rendered":"Principled Resignations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of many disappointments I&#8217;ve had during the current administration is the dearth of principled resignations.\u00a0 No small number of Bush appointees have left their posts, but most have wanted &#8220;more time with their families&#8221; rather than a fire of vitriol.<\/p>\n<p>Two examples are particularly obvious.\u00a0 Christine Todd Whitman was sidelined at EPA, reduced from Republican moderate stardom to whining &#8220;it&#8217;s my party, too&#8221; after playing chief apologist for anti-environment crusades.\u00a0 And Colin Powell&#8217;s four years as Secretary of State were an extended exercise in quietly suffering humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Would that they and others departed with flourish, perhaps even with the words of this brilliant, unsigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,878278,00.html\" title=\"Time\">Time magazine piece<\/a> from the pre-Watergate Nixon era channeling Nathan Hale: &#8220;I am  sorry that I have only one job to give for my country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of many disappointments I&#8217;ve had during the current administration is the dearth of principled resignations.\u00a0 No small number of Bush appointees have left their posts, but most have wanted &#8220;more time with their families&#8221; rather than a fire of vitriol. Two examples are particularly obvious.\u00a0 Christine Todd Whitman was sidelined at EPA, reduced from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,608,434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote","category-opinion","category-rhetoric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}