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Clark's retirement (at full pay of $39,500) gives Lyndon Johnson the opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the liberals' slender majority. There was the usual speculation about Government figures (Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Congressman Wilbur Mills), academicians (Harvard Law School's Paul Freund), and Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like...
Maybe, then, Johnson did appoint Goldberg to protect his flank in the international political game. And maybe Goldberg has been able to persuade the President to let him make the American position more palatable to its critics at home and abroad. The job has had its rewards. The responsibility for delivering the encouraging speech at Howard University, asking Hanoi to clarify the ambiguities in its statements on negotiations, fell to Goldberg. If McNamara or Rusk had delivered that statement, diplomats might not have been able to believe their own ears; but it should be disconcerting for Goldberg to realize that...
...voluntarily, the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet can send a written statement to Congress declaring that the President is incapable of holding office. If the President were to challenge such a resolution, Congress itself would vote on the question. The amendment also authorizes the President to appoint, and Congress to confirm, a new Vice President if a vacancy occurs in that office...
...made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with sweeping emergency powers. Such a council would act as a built-in power structure, waiting only for the day when either Chiang or Ching-kuo might decide to activate...
Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley, meanwhile, had another big, related problem. One of the mayor's first postfire acts was to appoint a panel to determine why a six-year-old exhibition hall that had been built to outlast the Colosseum had no sprinkler systems or fire walls, and had burned down. Wondering also were such insurance companies as Travelers, Continental, and Interstate Fire & Casualty, who had written $29,650,000 worth of insurance on McCormick Place on the say-so of their own inspectors, who estimated its maximum probable fire loss at less than...