Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen invited me, on behalf of the President-elect, to attend a dinner at the Madison Hotel in Washington, where I met Reagan's aides Edwin Meese and James Baker and the President-elect's friend and adviser Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. They were there, it seemed, to look me over. They asked, first, if I had anything to hide in connection with Watergate. I assured them that I had nothing whatever to hide. Then Meese asked me a second question: Did I want to be President? I answered in the negative. It seemed a curious question. Meese...
...convinced that in a broad way, the President-elect and I shared a certain view of the world. Like the voters who elected him, I perceived in Ronald Reagan more significant qualities than mere expertise: decency, optimism, a gift for self-education, a sturdy, common-sense affection for the U.S. and for mankind, and a talent for communication that approached the artistic. Better than any President since John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan had the surface qualities and the skills to do the job. In the epoch of television, he, like Kennedy, was made for the camera. In a demagogue, this would...
...days after John Kennedy's election in 1960, Old Joe paced his apartment on Park Avenue in green slippers and bathrobe, trying to sound profound on being the father of a President. He was having a terrible time. So he switched the subject to Billy Graham, who had just played golf with the President-elect,down in Palm Beach and proclaimed to the press that "the Bible teaches that we 'are to pray for those in authority...
Hawaii C 27 Only Mondale and Jackson are on the ballot. But lukewarm voters could elect uncommitted delegates instead...
Firmenich evidently developed pangs of home sickness after Argentina began reverting to civilian rule last year. In December he and four other Montonero leaders made a grand show of sending an open letter to the country's President-elect, Raúl Alfonsín, offering to take part in a "constructive and democratic opposition...