Word: interregnum
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Though the state of U.S. affairs clearly required liaison between the outgoing and incoming Administrations, many an Eisenhower supporter was inclined to regard the Truman proposals with skepticism. Franklin Roosevelt's refusal to engage in joint planning with Herbert Hoover in the last interregnum between two U.S. Administrations has long been considered smart politics, since it tied Hoover's hands and permitted Roosevelt, after his inauguration, to give the impression that he alone had brought order out of chaos...
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...Congress tried its wings last week, with the Democrats triumphantly in control, it seemed almost like old times. Old familiar faces, which had all but disappeared from sight during the two-year Republican interregnum, turned up again at the head of congressional committee tables. Veterans of the early New Deal, like West Virginia's demagogic Matt Neely, 74, unpacked in Washington, back from political exile. As in the old New Deal days, congressional corridors were crowded with eager Democratic freshmen, anxious to get their first speeches off their chests...
...Walter Lippmann (writing of the expected interregnum): "The course of events cannot be halted for three months until Mr. Dewey is inaugurated...
...Christian Century, under the headline MR. DULLES SHOULD BE NAMED AT ONCE on Nov. 3: "The constitutional interregnum . . . cannot be avoided, but if the President-elect will name his Secretary of State immediately, the damage . .. will be held at a minimum." This week the Christian Century was still calling Dewey "the President-elect...