(Jun. 17, 1991) Resignation:Dick Thornburgh TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991 June 17, 1991 The Gift Of Life
Time Magazine MILESTONES, Page 79

RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. By Dick Thornburgh, 58, Attorney General, who will leave the Cabinet at the end of July to run for the Senate; in Washington. Thornburgh hopes to fill the unexpired term of Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Heinz, who was killed in a plane crash on April 4. Thornburgh is favored over Democrat Harris Wofford, who was appointed to the seat after Heinz's death.