Word: elect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...white Lincoln moved slowly through Georgetown's narrow streets, picked up speed as it headed downtown toward the Capitol. In the back seat President-elect Jack Kennedy fiddled with the electric window switch, then sat back and. as if thinking aloud, discussed the vast difficulties of forming a new U.S. Administration. "It's tough to find the kind of people we want," he said, "but we're coming along...
...Adviser Chester Bowles, who looked a little dour upon leaving-thus sparking rumors that he had not been offered the kind of job he had hoped for. Kennedy got a visit, too, from New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, who offered Kennedy a cigar. Asked the President-elect, smilingly: "Did you just have a son?" Startled, Chavez, 72, said no-and hastily put the cigar back in his pocket...
...reporter asked Kennedy if he wanted his boy to grow up to be President. Replied the new papa, commonsensibly: "I haven't thought about it. I just want for him to be all right." After visiting the baby with his father, Millionaire Joe Kennedy, the Pres ident-elect revealed that "we finally decided who the baby looks like. He looks like Dad." Who decided that? Replied Jack...
...most part, it was Daughter Caroline, just turned three, who got Jack Kennedy's nonpresidential attention and a lot of the photographers' as well. One unforgettable shot: the President-elect, emerging from church, unconcernedly hanging on to a rag doll. Brimming with Kennedy energy, Caroline scooted around everywhere, once squeezed through her father's legs to steal the scene from a Lyndon Johnson-Kennedy photo session. "Daddy," said she, "tie my shoes, please." Asked if she would call her baby brother "Jack," she replied: "No. His name is John." But soon Kennedy called a halt to most...
...Jersey, Republicans called off the fight after early recounts came up with small Kennedy gains. In Missouri, recounts cannot get under way unless and until they are authorized by the Democrat-controlled state legislature, which does not meet again until January, just several days before the inauguration of President-elect Kennedy...