Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Measure of Efficiency. Is Nixon's burden too light? His aides, of course, would say no, and argue rather that it is a measure of the President's efficiency that he has time for other things. It is true that Nixon, unlike his predecessor, is fairly serene about delegating authority and awaiting reports from his subalterns. It is doubtless also true that a President need sign only one piece of paper a day-if it is the right piece:of paper...
...regime, he mixed enthusiastically among the civilian population. One evening he and his wife danced past midnight at a party with Brazilians from Rio's ramshackle favelas. After the murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in a kidnap attempt in "Guatemala a year ago, Elbrick's predecessor, John Tuthill, kept a bodyguard and frequently changed cars and routes for the trip between the downtown Rio embassy and residence in Rio's Botafogo district. Elbrick scorned security recommendations, and two weeks ago dismissed his Brazilian guard detachment...
...predecessor stood smiling, felt hat in hand, looking a little dazed in the brilliant California sun, but pleased as well. As reporters and photographers gathered round to congratulate Johnson on his birthday, Nixon turned to one and said admiriigly: "He doesn't look that old, does he?" Then they were off in a motorcade of golf carts. As the party split, with Nixon and Johnson heading for the executive-office complex and the rest turning off to the presidential villa, Nixon called to Luci: "You can use the pool if you want. And my surfboard. I never use that...
...occupied the place that you occupy who didn't want to do the best he could. Some have succeeded, and some have had less success. But of this you can be sure: if all of your days are as successful as today in bringing happiness to your predecessor, you will have a most successful presidency." Then it was back on board the presidential jet and homeward, Air Force One dropping the Nixons in San Clemente before taking the Johnsons straight on to the LBJ Ranch...
Early in the battle, Bacon's predecessor as battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Eli P. Howard Jr., was killed when his helicopter was shot down; seven others died with him, including A.P. Photographer Oliver Noonan. The 3rd Battalion troops, including Alpha Company, set out to fight their way to the crash site. In temperatures that rose to well over 100° F. in the heavy, stale air trapped among the hills, Alpha Company experienced its first violent contact with the enemy, suffering three dead and two wounded in a fierce firefight at the foot of a low hill called...