Word: committeee
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The appointment giving Kennedy the most trouble was the most important one of all: Secretary of State. One by one Kennedy ran down a list of eligibles, rejecting them for various reasons. By week's end his strongest preference was for Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, 55, chairman of...
Kennedy's top choice for Secretary of the Interior was another young, aggressive Congressman: Arizona's Stewart Udall, 40, just re-elected for a fourth term. Heir to one of Arizona's most respected names (his father was Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; three other...
A second speaker, Rober Taber, former CBS correspondent in Cuba and now executive secretary of the newly formed National Fair Play for Cuba Committee, declared that opposition to state department Cuban policy "constantly on the rise.
Taber also emphasized that the Committee has a "long way to go. In fact, I've met people just recently who think that Cuba belongs to the United States." The speaker hoped that President-elect Kennedy was "only kidding" when he offered during the campaign to support Cuban counter-revolutionaries...
Because none of the seven players in the Bermuda incident was playing on the team this fall, the club's protested the committee's decision. In addition, after the decision had been made last month, the club received handsome invitation from UOLA guardening more than $2,000 in expense money...