Word: citizen
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...correctly states that other Negroes have held Cabinet posts in France. TIME should have said that Minister Houphouet-Boigny is the first West African Negro to achieve Cabinet rank. Two French Negroes held major Cabinet offices before him: Cuban-born Severiano de Heredia, who became a French citizen, Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public Works, 1887; Martinique-born Henri Lémery, who was Minister of Justice...
...presidential] office," he went on, "is being changed from the American constitutional office of the first citizen of the Republic, into a European office much more like the early Roman emperors . . . This glamorizing of the presidency is the work of that bureaucratic elite which wants to rule the United States in the protecting shadow of a loved and trusted symbol. Kings, emperors, and Führers are built up by ambitious power-seekers who could not be elected to office themselves. Our power-seekers try to make our chief executive into a monarch, and our sober constitutional executive branch into...
Reactions to this pattern are mixed. Local residents seldom complain vigorously since the situation is essentially a response to residential needs. The citizen may complain that his city is changing for the worse, but before long he moves to a better one, leaving his home to those who have created the problem...
...This belated claim of insubordination is made by [Truman] not as a public official but as a private citizen . . . Had Mr. Truman made such a charge against me at the time of my relief, or even later during his tenure of office, I would have had the right and privilege to ask that a Court of Inquiry sit in judicial judgment upon his allegations. But he made no such charge, confining himself instead to administrative reasons for my replacement by an officer of his selection-a decision which . . . left me with no remedy, either in law or tradition...
...Herald said in its lead editorial yesterday morning, "Mr. Aldrich's record as a loyal citizen, lawyer, and judge is uninpeachable." The newspaper charged that McCarthy was seeking to intimidate the judiciary by attacking on "trivial" grounds, "a judge whose decision he disapproved...