Word: secretaryship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his not having wanted the secretaryship, he is enjoying himself after seven months on the job. The work is hard and less pleasant than a congressional leader's, but the power is great. "I like to be picked...
...Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department of Transportation, which stripped Commerce of such major bureaus as the Under Secretaryship of Transportation, Public Roads and the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation...
...Shut Up!" His reward was the foreign secretaryship, which he had long coveted. Brown exchanged portfolios with Michael Stewart, who in his nearly two years as Foreign Secretary proved a tough and able diplomat, notably in supporting the U.S. position in Viet Nam against internal Labor Party criticism. Brown has not been on the job long enough to produce any big successes, but he is steadily gaining influence in the Wilson Cabinet. Long the most enthusiastic Laborite supporter of Britain's joining Europe, Brown persuaded an initially reluctant Wilson that it was time to knock on the Common Market...
...their public exchange at the Senate hearings two months ago, when Fulbright responded to the Secretary's legalistic interpretation of the war by describing the North Vietnamese as "poor, confused, and ignorant people." According to Sorenson's Kennedy, President Kennedy was forced to choose Rusk over Fulbright for the Secretaryship because of objections to Fulbright's position on civil rights. Future historians may well point to the irony of the decision by which J. William Fulbright remained a Southern Senator and did not become Secretary of State, while Dean Rusk became Secretary of State and not a Southern Senator...
...Cabinet went Thomas Fraser, who as Transport Minister infuriated Britain's freewheeling motorists by proposing a 70-m.p.h. speed limit and spot-check drunkometer tests. And out of the demanding home-secretaryship went Sir Frank Soskice, 63 and ailing, who intends to retire from politics by the next general election...