Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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If President-elect and Cabinet were now holiday-inclined to relax and enjoy the headlines about themselves, there were plenty of other headlines-from Ethiopia to Laos-to jog them into awareness of what they were up to. Along with Postmaster Day, they will be carrying the world's...
Soon after the election. Jack Kennedy called his closest advisers together in Palm Beach for a session on Cabinetmaking. His instructions were succinct: "I want to get the best men I can for these Cabinet jobs, and I don't care if they are Democrats, Republicans or Igorots." Kennedy...
As usual, the tight little Kennedy inner group had done the kind of meticulous preparation that should fascinate political science classes for years to come. A screening committee of veteran Kennedy staffers, headed by Brother-in-Law Sargent Shriver and Larry O'Brien, began combing banks, foundations, campuses and...
Road to Pakistan. Every day, Sarge Shriver arrived at Kennedy's Georgetown home with a bulging briefcase in hand and a few comments to make on the virtues and liabilities of prospects. Kennedy kept as busy as his staff, making telephone calls on his own all over the country...
Names were leaked to newsmen to sound out public reaction. The name of Bobby Kennedy, as his brother's Attorney General, was floated to the New York Times four weeks ago, and brought immediate outcries of impropriety. Jack satisfied himself that the objections were serious but not fatal, and...