Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President-Elect, who was captain of the 1947 Yale baseball team, declined through a spokesman to forecast the result of today's Game...
WASHINGTON--President-elect George Bush yesterday named New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu as his White House chief of staff and announced campaign manager Lee Atwater as the new Republican National Committee Chair...
Eight years later, however, Ronald Reagan and George Bush are going out of their way to make the transition between their two Republican administrations proceed as smoothly as possible. But that does not mean George Bush has it easy until he assumes office on January 20, 1989. The president-elect, with the help of his transition staff, must make thousands of political appointments and many policy decisions that will set the tenor of his administration...
Some members of the Reagan administration appointed in recent months with Bush's approval are expected to stay on in the Bush administration. President-elect Bush announced Tuesday that his friend Nicholas Brady will remain as Treasury Secretary. It is also believed that Richard L. Thornburgh, the former Pennsylvania governor now on leave as director of the K-Schoo's Institute of Politics (IOP), will remain the Attorney General...
...pretty squishy time between the election and the innauguration," Linsky says. "There is a honeymoon period during the transition in which the press gives the president-elect a chance to set his own agenda...