Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First to be bounced in were Vice President-elect Johnson and Lady Bird in their private Convair. Typically, some body fouled up the schedule, and LBJ had to wait for 30 minutes in his plane before the welcoming committee arrived. And then there was added bustle: Lady Bird had not been expected (there are only six bedrooms in the Kennedy house, and present or invited - besides Jack - were Jackie, the new baby, Daughter Caroline, and Joe and Rose Kennedy). Next, gruff old Sam Rayburn, the "Speakah," as the Kennedys called him, flew in from Bonham, Texas in the Kennedy family...
President-elect Kennedy seemed to promise to make the Treasury a fortress of moderation when, fortnight ago, he plucked Wall Street Republican C. Doug las Dillon out of the Eisenhower State Department for his Treasury Secretary...
...Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death in 1930, he mounted the throne (with typical flamboyance, he had five pet lions chained to the coronation dais). He took unto himself the name of Haile Selassie ("Power of the Trinity") and the titles Elect of God, King of Kings and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah...
...belated victory dance, Illinois' twinkle-toed Governor-elect Otto Kerner, 52, kicked up his heels as if he had just heard the election returns. Democrat Kerner's elfin partners were two kiddies attending a Christmas party of Chicago's Off-the-Street Club, a civic organization that keeps children out of trouble and politicians out of smoke-filled rooms...
...with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife of the Vice President-elect came by and selected her inaugural gown along with a new suit...