Word: moring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Collectively, the Cabinet wound up squarely in the middle of the Democratic road-and miles from the left-side soft shoulder that sometimes seemed to be promised in Kennedy campaigning. Reading from right to left they ranged from North Carolina Democrat Luther Hodges (Commerce), 62, through Republican Douglas Dillon (Treasury...
Jack Kennedy's most delicate problem was what to do with the liberals he had courted assiduously and yet-because of the closeness of his election-did not want to put in top posts. Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams had his taste buds all set for a Cabinet job...
Rusk's father was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had to give up the pulpit because a throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton...
Even within the Ford hierarchy, businesslike Bob McNamara was to many little more than an awesome name. Up daily at 6, he was at his desk in Dearborn no later than 7:30, seldom left before 6. He rarely attended the hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely...
At the 1917 Convention 50 per cent of the delegates had previous legislative experience and, as Attorney Morris M. Goldings points out, the importance of the statistic depend on which half impresses you more. Knowledge of how a legislative body works certainly adds to the efficiency of the group, and...