Word: elective
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...closeness of his election victory had wrought a change in Jack Kennedy, and it showed last week. It determined him on a more moderate political course, and it made him more cautious in making his appointments. It had not, however, deprived him of that remarkable self-confidence of a man of 43 taking on perhaps the toughest and most important political office on earth. As rumors of Cabinet appointments swirled like snowflakes, in the midst of it all sat President-elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy-relaxed, and determined not to be rushed into any decisions before he was good and ready...
...husband of Jackie's sister and away in London. Jackie Kennedy was predictably proud of her tiny (6 Ib. 3 oz.) son, dressed in the christening gown his father had worn 43 years ago. "Look, Jack," she whispered, "hasn't he got the loveliest eyes?" The President-elect of the U.S. seemed to think...
Even more indicative was the noncommittal comment of President-elect Jack Kennedy: "It is an interesting and constructive study, which I know will be carefully analyzed by the Congress and the incoming Administration." At week's end the word around Washington was that Kennedy had no intention of submitting any significant portion of the Symington program to Congress...
...news was considered urgent enough to summon members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee to Washington for an urgent unscheduled meeting. CIA Director Allen Dulles hastily arranged a talk with President-elect John Kennedy. Around it all was an aura of deep secrecy. Was it someone's first successful Abomb? Was it a nuclear pile gone critical? Those in the know would say only that there has been an "atomic development" by an "nth power...
There are signs that President-elect Kennedy is thinking along Norstad's lines. In a book review written for the Satur day Re-view last September, Kennedy declared, "We must think through afresh the military mission of NATO." In the book before him, British Military Expert B. H. Liddell Hart argued that European nations perhaps should abandon atomic weapons and concentrate on conventional forces, leaving the U.S. the task of deterring Soviet atomic strength. Kennedy was convinced that European nations would likely prefer another solution: "Our partners may wish to create a NATO deterrent, supplementary to our own, under...