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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...
...candidate when the resignation of Charles Whittaker caused a vacancy on the court in March, 1962. But Schlesinger quotes Kennedy as saying. "I didn't want to start off with a Harvard man and a professor; we've taken so many Harvard men that it's damn hard to appoint another...
...time of Whittakekr's resignation, Schlesinger said Kennedy told him "I figure I will have several more appointments before I am through, and I intend to appoint Paul Freund. Arthur Goldberg and Bill Hastie." Hastie is a Negro judge serving on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. After Goldberg was appointed instead of Cox or Freund. Kennedy repeated. "I think we'll have appointments enough for everybody...