Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pierre Salinger-a man who, lost and forgotten in the turmoil in the aftermath of the tragic assassination, was perhaps closer to Mr. Kennedy than was any other of the late President's group of immediate political partners...
...were the sight and sound of the slain President likely to vanish in the months or the years to come. The assassination's aftermath continued to dominate network news coverage. Even now, three weeks after the event, NBC was giving an hour a day-about one-third of its daily news programing time-to reporting the effect of Kennedy's death on the nation and the world...
...aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, however, the current order of Presidential succession has come under critical examination. The deficiencies and obscurities of the present law become more obvious when the succession to the Presidency of the Speaker of the House is a viable possibility. Actually there is little chance that the line of succession would ever go beyond the Speaker, If he were ever elevated to the Presidency, the House would immediately elect a new Speaker, who would supersede the present pro tem of the Senate as next in line. Therefore most of the criticisms of the present order...
Rockefeller: Still Trying. New York's Governor remains the only announced candidate, and he has no intention of giving up. But in the aftermath of the assassination, he is considering a change of tactics-presumably in order to emphasize the similarities in his own philosophy and Kennedy's. Explains one aide: "They say Nelson is too much like Kennedy was. Well, if Kennedy had that appeal in the North, so will Nelson." A Michigan Republican puts it in another, less lofty way: "Rocky looks a lot more like Kennedy than Johnson does, and he's been geared...
...frantic aftermath of the assassination, Texas, Dallas and federal authorities rushed to assemble and sift through every detail surrounding the event. But all those overlapping efforts will become secondary. Last week President Johnson named a high-level commission to handle the official investigation. Members: Chief Justice Earl Warren (chairman), Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard B. Russell, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, Michigan's Republican Congressman Gerald Ford, ex-CIA Chief Allen W. Dulles, and onetime Presidential Disarmament Adviser John J. McCloy. The President's instructions...