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...That's just it. If we held the election today, we'd have None of the Above in the White House for the next four years, with Uncommitted as his faithful Veep, and Don't Know as Secretary of Explaining Foreign Policy...
...they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down to Rio with a surprise fellow traveler, Spiro Agnew-"I'm here on business" muttered the former Veep-Sinatra helicoptered to the hotel, shouldered his way through adoring throngs, and thereafter ventured out of his $750-a-day suite only for rehearsals and performances. Sniffed his pressagent: "If he wanted to be treated like an animal, he could have gone to any California zoo rather than coming...
President Andrew Johnson, who had been Lincoln's Veep, is scurrilously rumored to have been privy to the conspiracy-and is facing impeachment over his "soft" policy toward the defeated South. Secretary Stanton is widely believed to have been implicated in the murder. So is General Ulysses S. Grant, by now a leading contender for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Politics aside, there are strong inducements for those involved to claim that the real Booth had been run to ground: not least, the $50,000 War Department reward for his capture. It is up to Cosgrove, largely...
...wanted to be a lightning rod for American arts and crafts, Joan Mondale said during the campaign. As the Veep's wife, she has been an electric presence on the museum, gallery and crafts-fair circuit, logging 40,000 miles on her cultural missions. Just as zealous on the home front, she decided to hang handmade ornaments from 60 U.S. craftsmen and -women-cornhusk dolls, beaded Indians, crocheted icicles, free-form tin stars and batik crèche figures-on the 12-ft. Christmas tree in the vice-presidential mansion. "We will use them...
Ever since Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev booted President Nikolai Podgorny out of office and assumed the presidency himself last June, Kremlinologists have been speculating about who might be named to the newly created post of Vice President. A Veep was needed to take over the fatiguing ceremonial functions of the presidency, like scooting out to the airport to meet visiting chiefs of state and pumping the hands of ambassadors at diplomatic receptions. Brezhnev, 70, reportedly ailing with arteriosclerosis and leukemia, was regarded as too old and frail for such chores. His selection of a Vice President might suggest...