Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group is also somewhat more homogeneous than the cross section that Nixon sought. Earlier he had promised to put together "a Government drawn from the broadest possible base, an Administration made up of Republicans, Democrats and independents," one comprising "the very best men and women I can find in the country-from business, from government, from labor, from all the areas." Not by choice, he ended up with a group that is all white, all male, all Republican. As a rather obvious gesture of compensation, Nixon began the TV show by reappointing Walter Washington, a Negro Democrat, to a second...
World War II brought both men Navy commissions. They even trained at the same Rhode Island base before shipping out to the Pacific, but they did not really get to know each other until...
...contact with civilians, and they often gaze longingly into the display windows of sweetshops without ever working up the courage to go inside and buy something. "They don't have anything to do with us," says Mayor Vaclav Kulich of the tiny town of Benatky, near the Milovice base. "They might as well be ghosts...
...named 27 Cabinet members, a postwar record. They will be supported by perhaps as many as 57 under secretaries (up from 40), vying for cars, chauffeurs, parking spaces and all the other perquisites of office. There were reasons for the glut. Rumor was intent on maintaining as broad a base of political support as possible, and his crowded Cabinet represented nearly every faction in his lumpy Center-Left government. Despite the skepticism that greeted the crazy-quilt coalition, however, the formation of a government was no small achievement in itself, in view of recent intraparty strife and rising domestic turbulence...
...members are completely dependent on the President-elect for their new political existence. Nixon first named his closest friends and then filled up the remaining slots with men who would probably not have been national figures in any other Republican Administration. Politicians who had once tried to establish a base beyond their own constituencies were selected only if their attempt failed completely--Governor George Romney, who will be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, dropped out of the Presidential race against Nixon before the first primary, and Governor John Volpe, who will head the Department of Transportation, was trounced...