Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Favreau told Pearson, but as Pearson later admitted, he had "completely forgotten" about the warnings of trouble in his official family until two days before the Opposition Conservatives broke the story last November. When the storm hit Parliament, Pearson had no choice but to collect resignations and to appoint a commission of public inquiry. For the past six weeks, Canadians have been treated to the spectacle of the accused aides protesting their innocence and minor-league hoodlum types testifying about their "connections" in the Liberal government...
...have come to the conclusion that the only problems that Johnson has not offered to solve for the American people are those dealing with resurrection and eternal life. In view of this fact, perhaps he should appoint a few theologians to help incorporate these ideas into the master plan...
...domestic political battles. Talking to a newsman before the 1946 congressional elections, Fulbright launched out on one of his lectures about the evils of party divisions between the White House and Congress. To prevent a deadlocked Government, he suggested that if Republicans seized Congress, Harry Truman really ought to appoint Republican Arthur Vandenberg Secretary of State, then resign himself and let Vandenberg succeed to the presidency (the vice-presidency was vacant, and in those days the Secretary of State was still next in line). The G.O.P. did win, and after the election the reporter asked Fulbright if he still felt...
...should appoint Goldwater his "ViceMan of the Year." If not for Barry, Lyndon would never have made...
...patronage pie in the shape of some 400 legislative housekeeping jobs; thus the Democrats had to depend on Republican holdovers to turn on the lights, call the roll, and even chauffeur the official Cadillacs when the legislature convenes this week. The Democrats also failed to appoint committee chairmen, and in the vacuum Rockefeller happily stole the Democrats' thunder, announced some items of his own program, including several proposals that minority Democrats had been vainly pushing for years...