Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Luther Hartwell Hodges, 62, Secretary of Commerce. To Kennedy, North Carolina's outgoing Governor Hodges has a number of shining political virtues: he worked hard for the ticket in politically touchy North Carolina; he is trusted by the South; and he is respected and liked by the U.S. business...
The white Lincoln moved slowly through Georgetown's narrow streets, picked up speed as it headed downtown toward the Capitol. In the back seat President-elect Jack Kennedy fiddled with the electric window switch, then sat back and. as if thinking aloud, discussed the vast difficulties of forming a...
At that moment last week Kennedy had already announced, or was ready to announce, several key appointments, and had all but finally decided on several others. For Secretary of Agriculture, he had in mind South Dakota's Democratic Congressman George McGovern, 38, an ex-Air Force hero who ran...
Kennedy's top choice for Secretary of the Interior was another young, aggressive Congressman: Arizona's Stewart Udall, 40, just re-elected for a fourth term. Heir to one of Arizona's most respected names (his father was Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; three other...
Not all went according to Jack Kennedy's plan. He very much wanted able New York Banker Robert Lovett, 65, in a key spot. One of Henry Stimson's and George Marshall's top men in the '40s, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, Republican...