Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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State. And his plans ran into snags. His personal favorite for Secretary of State had been Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright. But almost all of Kennedy's trusted advisers argued that in a world in which Afro-Asians are increasingly important, Fulbright's segregationist background would not...
It took a while for Jack Kennedy to be persuaded. He was then prepared to offer the State post to Dean Rusk, 51, head of the Rockefeller Foundation and a prospect with impressive credentials-except for the. fact that he is little known to the public, and Kennedy had wanted...
Rusk, the son of a poor Georgia cotton farmer, became a Rhodes scholar, a political-science professor at California's Mills College. A wartime general-staff officer, he later caught the eye of Secretary of State George Marshall, moved into the State Department as a top Marshall aide. He...
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Hour's Chat. Throughout the rest of his busy week, Jack Kennedy provided ample evidence of becoming the best hide-and-seek player the presidency has ever had. One afternoon, after a quick visit to Georgetown University Hospital to see Wife Jacqueline and their new son, he vanished to...