Word: lecterns
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...John Kennedy brought in Douglas Dillon for the Treasury because Dillon was a pillar of the New York financial community, which habitually mistrusts Democratic hands in the national till. Neither of those appointments, however, was quite the bombshell that Richard Nixon exploded last week when he strode to the lectern in the White House press-briefing room and announced that John Connally-conservative Democrat, Lyndon Johnson protégé, former Governor of Texas, and still that state's second most influential politician-would replace David Kennedy as Secretary of the Treasury...
Standing at John F. Kennedy's inaugural platform in 1961, he delighted the President and TV audience by steadfastly continuing his invocation after smoke began to pour from the lectern in front of him. He was cast in a more somber role in 1963, when he conducted John Kennedy's funeral Mass in Washington. He rushed to the Kennedys' side at the time of Bobby's assassination. He comforted Rose during Joseph Sr.'s long illness and again at his death, and staunchly defended Jackie after her marriage to Aristotle Onassis...