Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being too stingy in doling out money and credit, and he has proposed making the terms of future Federal Reserve chairmen coincide with the terms of Presidents-a none-too-subtle indication that he believes each President should have a chairman who is philosophically compatible. But Carter cannot appoint a new chairman to succeed Burns until January 1978, and he knows that his plans for economic expansion will fail unless Burns and the board pump enough money into the banking system...
...that the President-elect is in debt to blacks is to put it mildly. During the campaign he promised to appoint more blacks to high Government posts than any previous President. The congressional Black Caucus gathered and submitted names; so did other black organizations such as the National Bar Association and the National Medical Association. Said Jeffalyn Johnson, a senior professor at the Federal Executive Development Institute who spent several months working up potential appointee lists: "There is no shortage of black talent in this country...
...Minnesota, where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...
Queen's Representative. Ironically, the one proposal that might be acceptable to the blacks and Smith faces strong British opposition. In what amounts to a brief return of the imperial Pax Britannica, this scheme calls for London to appoint a Governor General for Rhodesia who would be that country's highest official during the transition period. The presence of a trusted representative of the Queen would reassure many blacks that the devious Smith would be unable to undermine the transfer of power. Whites would similarly be reassured that they would not become victims of vengeful black radicals...
Second, I plan to appoint diplomatic officials who have superb credentials, strictly on the basis of merit, not reward people for political favors. And that's a commitment that I've made on my word of honor. I'm not going to break...