Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President had deliberately let the problem slide until after the U.S. elections. In the circumstances, both Ike and Anderson felt that a dramatic gesture was needed to get across his message: that the U.S. expects its affluent allies to do more toward carrying the free world's burdens. In the long run, the demands on West Germany might well be met in one form or another-to the eventual benefit of the Kennedy Administration. But in the short run, the Administration came in for heavy criticism. The cause was not helped much by Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson...
...grey pinstripe Ivy League, politely but firmly declined to put on a five-gallon Stetson before photographers. But L.B.J. quickly picked up the pace, hauled Kennedy off for a bumpy inspection tour in a Lincoln convertible while the press and Secret Service men trailed unhappily behind. The President-elect peered through the windshield wipers at white-faced Herefords blinking in the headlights, and the Vice President-elect reported their whereabouts to the ranch house over his radiotelephone ("We're down here by Grandpop's house, near the old graveyard...
...Tokyo's bemused U.S. residents it was hard to believe that they were living in the same city that only six months ago had turned out thousands of screaming demonstrators against "U.S. imperialism." As more than 56 million Japanese voters prepared to go to elect a new Diet this week, the most idolized politician in the country was a 43-year-old American-President-elect John F. Kennedy...
...newest satellite. In Havana, Soviet Ambassador Sergei M. Kudryavstev passed the word that Moscow is not entirely pleased with Castro's systematic alienation of Latin America, and has urged him to ease off. Khrushchev has also made clear that his hopes for friendly relations with U.S. President-elect John Kennedy are more important to him than Castro's feelings, and has warned Castro to confine his anti-U.S. attacks to the "Government" of President Eisenhower. When Raúl Castro was in Moscow last summer, Khrushchev himself remarked: "You know there are only two parties in Cuba...
...round, inescapable fact even when the nation's economy is booming. Both parties introduced bills to aid depressed areas in the last Congress, but squabbled them to death. The cost was comparatively small: $180 million for the Administration bill v. $251 million for the Democratic bill. Now President-elect John F. Kennedy has put a depressed-areas bill at the top of his list of must legislation...