Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenhower's name was being used-possibly in vain-by contenders other than Scranton. Harold Stassen, now a Philadelphia lawyer with a record of elective losses in Pennsylvania elections, announced that he would definitely try to be nominated. He had, said Stassen, visited Ike at Gettysburg several times and was encouraged to run after he got a letter from Eisenhower last month saying "you may be sure that there will be no lack of effort on my part to elect the ticket you should be heading"-if by some quirk Stassen should wind up heading a ticket somewhere...
...Amazed." These are the qualifications questioned since Kennedy's death. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating proposed a constitutional amendment providing for the election of two Vice Presidents to "strengthen the line of succession." New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits and Virginia's Democratic Representative J. Vaughan Gary proposed that the Congress be empowered to elect a new Vice President. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh suggested that the President himself nominate a new Vice President, his choice subject to approval by Congress. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "Whatever John McCormack...
...other lands, the assurance might have been regarded as unnecessary-or impertinent. But in Venezuela it mattered. As outgoing President Rómulo Betancourt and President-elect Raul Leoni reviewed an air force anniversary parade recently, Colonel Francisco Miliani Aranguren, the air force commander, stepped forward. The military, promised Aranguren, "will remain loyal to the 3,000,000 compatriots who went to the polls to choose our next President...
President-elect Leoni lacks Betancourt's fiery personal appeal, but he is an old and shrewd politician who should know a successful campaign when he sees one. He starts out with promises of loyalty from a younger, better educated, more politically sophisticated and more professional army. Whether he keeps the loyalty depends on his success as President. In the old golpista tradition, many officers still consider it their duty, as ultimate guardians of their country, to remove a President who fails...
...present law become more obvious when the succession to the Presidency of the Speaker of the House is a viable possibility. Actually there is little chance that the line of succession would ever go beyond the Speaker, If he were ever elevated to the Presidency, the House would immediately elect a new Speaker, who would supersede the present pro tem of the Senate as next in line. Therefore most of the criticisms of the present order of succession focus on the several disadvantages of having the Speaker as the second man to succeed the President...