Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon won Harry Truman's home precinct, but little else, Democratic winners in clean sweeps were Kennedy, Governor-elect John Dalton, re-elected Senator Edward Long, and House Parliamentarian Clarence Cannon...
...election is won, the enemy has been repelled, and now President-elect Kennedy may settle down to what he has called "the great unfinished business of the country." Now he may convince those who supported him more in hope than in certainty that the choice they made was an important...
Fresher Faces. If Kennedy next week becomes the youngest President-elect in history, he will move on Washington like an arrow. Already Clark Clifford, an old White House hand from the days of Truman, is at work on a what-to-do program for the transition months between election and inauguration. Plans are under way for a complete overhaul of the executive branch: Clifford has a list of 204 top jobs that would be filled by Dec. i, another 406 to be filled by Jan. 1. Clifford is working closely with the Brookings Institution on a table of organization patterned...
...junta promised free presidential elections on schedule in 1962, freed political prisoners, dissolved Congress and promised to elect a new one soon. To answer the inevitable question, the junta chose as its spokesman Lawyer Fortin Magana. It "definitely will not be of the Cuban type,'' he said. To a crowd outside the palace he called: "Because we believe that you deserve more than a crumb of bread and justice is precisely why we are here." How much more than a crumb it would take to keep El Salvador pacified remained to be seen...
Some Democrats are afraid of Meyer because of their own political interests. If he wins this election, they seem to feel, their place in the party will be shaky; the traditional party machinery will break down. If the voters re-elect Meyer, the party will probably nominate more Democrats with progressive beliefs, leaving little room for the old-line moderates...