Word: elective
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...four party changes (1916, 1920, 1932, 1952) in the U.S. presidency. But, mainly due to Henry, this week's winner will get sage advice from Washington's nonpartisan Brookings Institution, which is publishing Henry's book as part of a unique effort to educate the President-elect...
...committee headed by former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the Brookings team has interviewed some 60 top-level veterans of changeovers. Last week their accumulated wisdom went out to both candidates in the first three of ten memos on the subject. According to Brookings, the President-elect should...
...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
Although the Brooklyn figure for Kennedy was about four percentage points higher than the national, it was still on the right side and almost exactly the same as his final percentage in Connecticut. The town's bellwether status was also confirmed by the President-elect's campaign manager Robert F. Kennedy '43, who as one of meter points throughout the country...
...turned out, Volpe did not go into the lead until 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, when the totals finally gave him about a 1,000-vote edge. Ward did not concede to Volpe until noon. The Governor-elect eventually triumphed by nearly 138,000 votes...