Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reference to his sources--obstacles which would ostensibly remind the reader that he's still here. Sometimes Manchester dons the traditional cloaks of anonimity ("The President told a friend..."; "The President said privately..."), but more common is his use of the second person: "As you alighted from the congressman-elect's convertible you thought that Hyannis Port must by an ideal place for relaxation. You couldn't have been farther wrong...
...selection of a U.S. President is not unusual. Starting with Franklin Roosevelt, TIME'S sixth Man of the Year, every President except Gerald Ford has been designated, most often as President-elect, since almost by definition anyone who enters and wins a U.S. presidential election dominates the year's news. Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt were all chosen in their election years; Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Harry Truman in 1948 were both Presidents and Presidents-elect, since they had succeeded to the office through their predecessors' deaths. Johnson was named twice (again...
...right-wing extremists. Henry Kissinger, along with eight members of the bipartisan presidential commission he heads, was in Mexico and Venezuela gathering fact and opinion for the report that is scheduled to go to the President in early January. U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met with the President-elect of Venezuela and the President of Colombia...
...center for a three-way conversation with President Reagan and the West German astronaut aboard Skylab. After the slender hope of a last-minute compromise vanished during the closing summit dinner, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi told the press, "If I may use metaphorical language, we failed to elect a new Pope, and there is black smoke." With the health of the Community hanging in the balance, the question now is: Who, in the next round of negotiations, will blink first-if anyone blinks...
Councilor Leonard J. Russell, however, had a different request. "I'm asking Santa to make me mayor," Russell said. The nine councilors will elect one of their number to the position after the new council is sworn is in January...