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Walking & Talking. In 1945 Miguel Alemán was nominated for the presidency by the P.R.I. Remembering López Mateos' gift of oratory, Alemán asked him to serve as one of his top campaigners. López Mateos handled the job with such brilliance that Alemán, with P.R.I, at his disposal, gratefully arranged his election as Senator from the state of Mexico...
Aleman sent López Mateos off to international conferences in Washington (where he developed a taste for U.S. cheesecake from Duke Zeibert's Restaurant), Argentina and Switzerland, and appointed him Ambassador to Costa Rica. Moving higher in government circles, he met a top bureaucrat named Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Soon the two Adolfos were taking long and friendly walks through the city at night. When Ruiz Cortines was nominated as P.R.I.'s presidential candidate in 1951, he got López Mateos to manage his campaign. López Mateos did so well that on inauguration...
Model Efficiency. To settle labor disputes, López Mateos expanded the corps of government arbitrators from one to 50, set up teams of investigators to look into management's books and labor's demands. By the time a dispute reached the mediation stage, he and his arbitrators were ready, willing and prolabor. Once, after a long wrangle with a group of representatives of management, López Mateos tapped his finger on the table for attention. "Gentlemen," he said. "Perhaps you did not notice the sign over the door. It says Secretary of Labor. I am here...
...Labor Secretary, López Mateos lived quietly in a two-story, eight-room house on the outskirts of the capital's fancy suburb-on-a-lava-field, Pedregal. The house, made of glass and lava stone, is furnished with nude marble statuettes, alabaster floor lamps, overstuffed furniture in shades of purple and rose. The López Mateos' only child, Evita, 16, studied at Torrington Park, an English school for middle-class girls, in Arundel, West Sussex, learned flawless English (her father, fluent in Spanish and French, can read English but does not speak...
...pez Mateos likes to rise at 6 and start the day with a cup of ink-black coffee and the newspapers, then shave with a Remington shaver. He dresses in double-breasted suits of conservative cut and dark color, wears monogrammed ties...