Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together to express a collective concern" in the form of a memorandum to the President. Meanwhile "McGeorge Bundy and Kissinger were bringing the President comparable questions about the state of military planning." So many Faculty members were called to Washington that Kennedy was often reluctant to appoint a professor because "we've taken so many Harvard men that it's damn hard to appoint another...
Ongania could hardly endure such slings and arrows forever. When Illia refused to appoint Ongania's candidate to the War Secretary's job, there was nothing left to do except quit. For Illia now, as one officer said ominously, "the real question is whether Ongania will be more trouble out than...
...rebel bishops were rocked, at least momentarily, when the Cabinet passed a draft bill that would depose the Assembly, appoint one in its place from the nonrebellious bishops and reform the method of paying bishops. The rebels countered with a threat to excommunicate any bishop who agreed to serve on the government-appointed synod, to cast an anathema on the government, to close every church in Greece and order priests not to perform marriages and christenings...
Whirled Asunder. Schlesinger excels at providing the illuminating stray quote or the odd fact that firmly fixes a character in the reader's mind. Here is Kennedy about to appoint Harriman to an ambassadorial post but first sending a trusted friend over to make sure that the old pro promised to get himself a hearing aid. Here is Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turning from a discussion of Red China as the real menace to the West to the question of a new NATO commander, and saying breezily to Kennedy: "I suppose it should be a Russian...
...Last -- but very important -- the President should appoint as federal judges only men who have demonstrated that they will administer the laws fairly and firmly. In the past, too many such judges have been chosen on the basis of politics, not performance. Giving the federal government the power to seek an injunction to halt jury discrimination will have little effect if the case is decided by a judge who believes in white supremacy...