Word: armloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each morning the President arrived at his West Wing office carrying an armload of newspaper clippings and memoranda written in his hasty scrawl. One morning, staffers found him in the mail room, opening letters himself and writing instructions across them. In his eagerness to get things done, Kennedy has developed a "prodding list" of matters that he feels he must pursue, has learned, as all Presidents do, that he sometimes has to ask three times to get things done. On his telephone, the President has installed a console of pushbuttons, enabling him to bypass secretaries and instantly reach the inner...
...words per minute-every word clearly and distinctly enunciated. He can drown out any competition merely by raising his rasping voice an octave. (His younger sister Frances remembers him as a South Dakota newsboy: "When he stood out there on Main Street in front of the drugstore, holding an armload of St. Paul Dispatches, you could hear him all over town.") His 8½-hour filibuster with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev left the interpreters reeling; Humphrey has talked about it ever since. Once, as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, he appeared on a radio program with Classmate...