Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor over the "Nixon fund" and helped frame the famous Checkers speech. In 1955, when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, Nixon turned to Rogers before anyone else. "He was a friend," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom I could speak with complete freedom without any concern that what I might say would find its way into the Washington gossip mill...
...Judgment," being "cool under pressure"-these are attributes Nixon prizes in subordinates; he used the terms repeatedly last week in introducing his men. (He also used the phrase "extra dimension" ten times during the TV program.) Loyalty is another quality Nixon seeks, and he has obviously found it in Rogers, who says: "The only thing a Cabinet officer should have in mind is the success of the Administration...
Unlike Nixon, Rogers enjoyed private life. Urbane, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), affable and attractive, he is known around Washington as a kind of Republican Clark Clifford. "But," says Jack Javits, "he's got even more cool than Clark, and that's saying a lot." "I didn't want to get back into public life," Rogers said last week. "I didn't seek it. I thought there are others certainly better qualified. But when the President-elect asks, you have no choice...
...White House declined comment, and Nixon denied that he was told of the possible Goldberg nomination. The call to Warren, say Nixonites, was merely a conciliatory gesture toward the Chief Justice. Nixon and Warren have been cool toward each other for years...
Since Walter Camp popularized All-America college teams at the turn of the century, they have become as common as cheerleaders. Yet to most of the All-America athletes, the only thing that counts is the cool assessment by the pro scouts. Since 1958, TIME'S All-America has been based on reports from the scouts. Several Heisman Trophy winners have not made the team; a good many small-college players who never made anyone else's All-America have lived up to the scouts' estimates...