Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pledges towards the goal of $10 million which will be needed to build the Library have reportedly already reached $2-3 million. Among the largest early supporters have been Averell Harrimas, Assistant Secretary of State; Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury; and the AFL-CIO. The Kennedy Foundation has also promised $1 million...
Mann battled to protect such Latin American exports as copper, lead and zinc to the U.S. Between 1958 and 1960, he almost singlehanded brought the U.S. into a worldwide marketing agreement designed to end wild fluctuations in coffee prices. When President Eisenhower and then Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon got to work on the complicated hemisphere-wide development plan that later became the Alliance for Progress, Mann was a principal adviser...
...files, CBS assembled an hour-long program in which the late President and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman separately discussed the highest office in the land. This week on CBS, four members of Kennedy's Cabinet-Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense MacNamara, Secretary of the Treasury Dillon and Secretary of Labor Wirtz-will measure Kennedy's legacy to his country in terms of the past and the future...
...east wing of the White House, letters offering prayers and sympathy for Jackie piled up in stacks six feet high -over 300,000 in all. And at the Treasury Department Building, Jackie, expressionless, watched Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon award the department's citation for "exceptional bravery" to Secret Service Man Clinton J. Hill. It was Hill, assigned to protect Jackie since the day she became First Lady, who ran to the rear of the presidential limousine in Dallas after Kennedy had been killed, clambered onto the bumper and clutched Jackie's hand as she pulled him aboard...
...word was continuity. In talks with Heller, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon, the new President surveyed the economy and made some early economic decisions and readings. Among them: 1) Johnson will hold to John Kennedy's commitment to limit the increase in next year's federal spending to $3 billion or less; 2) in view of his promise of spending restraint, he will give congressional leaders an earlier-than-normal look at next year's budget-perhaps just before Christmas-to show them that he really means it; and 3) the Administration expects...