Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President-elect Dwight Eisenhower had already named his entire Cabinet. Richard Nixon is in no such hurry-partly because he thinks Ike should have weighed his choices more cautiously. Despite some muttering among members of Lyndon Johnson's Administration that new Cabinet officers had better start consulting with their outgoing counterparts soon in order to smooth the transfer of power, Nixon was moving with characteristic caution...
...during crucial moments of the campaign, the President-elect sought complete privacy. On Florida's Key Biscayne for much of the week, Nixon considered the most important of some 3,000 federal posts he must fill-jobs ranging in rank and responsibility from chauffeur to the twelve Cabinet jobs. Nixon will not announce any appointments until late next week at the earliest, but speculation was inevitably growing about the makeup of his Administration's top echelon...
Talent Search. Whatever Finch's future, his role in Nixon's current talent search is crucial. The President-elect, closeted with Finch, Mitchell and Assistant Bob Haldeman, is working his way through two tomes, each as thick as a Washington telephone book, to mold his Administration. Prepared over the past seven months by Dr. Glenn Olds, former president of Massachusetts' Springfield College, the black-bound volumes contain scouting reports on some 1,500 possibilities for the Government's top 300 jobs. It remained to be seen how far Nixon will bow to political considerations...
...most formidable sword, of course, remains national disunity. Like all Presidents-elect, Nixon has been enjoying the traditional honeymoon with the nation in his first weeks after election. He has used the quiet time that often follows the end of a long campaign to forge an Administration privately and deliberately. Nixon knows well that the decisions he makes on appointments between now and the first of the year will determine the character of his Administration for many months, and the public's reaction to it. The President-elect has also begun work on his Inaugural Address, hoping that...