Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporation formed yesterday will appoint a board of trustees to do the bulk of the fundraising. Both the Attorney General and the Senator said they would take roiled in the end cavor...
President Johnson can certainly be expected to consult with these old associates-although not necessarily to appoint any of them to high office. Who are the men Lyndon may reasonably be expected to bring into his official family, at whatever level...
...also became the particular protege of family friend and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, who got President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Johnson director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Lyndon used his position as a springboard to a successful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was then 29, and except for seven months in the Navy, he has held national elective office ever since...
After the war, White became a lawyer, a judge, a U.S. Senator, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller died in 1910, the other Associate Justices paid White a magnificent tribute: they petitioned President Taft to appoint him to head the court. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was on the court at that time, had been wounded five times while serving in the Union forces, said Warren. Yet Holmes and White formed "an abiding friendship." In 1915, in Guinn v. U.S., the White court considered an Oklahoma amendment that discriminated against Negroes by requiring...
Another revelation: while he was still in Europe as commander of SHAPE, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden "expressed the hope that [if I should be elected] I might appoint someone other than Dulles" as U.S. Secretary of State. "I made no reply," he writes, "except to say that I knew of no other American so well qualified as Foster to take over the duties of that particular office...