Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon labored over his inaugural address last week, a group of three top aides headed by Attorney General-designate John Mitchell carried on with the task of screening candidates for the 6,500 jobs within the President-elect's gift. Some choices...
...Joseph Kennedy under F.D.R., to John Hay Whitney under Eisenhower-and Annenberg fills that bill precisely. His Triangle Publications has become a $200 million-a-year empire; Annenberg is known in Philadelphia as a tough man to cross. He is an old, trusted friend of Nixon, and the President-elect stayed at his Palm Springs home shortly after the election...
...Bliss. Nixon was widely reported as wanting to dump Bliss for past slights, but Bliss's organizational talents are much admired within the party, and Republican leaders around the land rallied to his support. Looking like a happy old owl, Bliss said in Manhattan that the President-elect "expressed complete satisfaction with the job being done...
...Viet Nam, but carefully refrained from revealing any of the specifics that he would prescribe to end Southeast Asia's three decades of bloodshed and turmoil. Thus Nixon is assuming the presidency unfreighted with any of the electioneering labels that proved so embarrassing to Lyndon Johnson. The President-elect is neither avowedly hawk nor dove, and the Communist negotiators he will face in Paris, knowing nothing of the President-elect's intentions, are finding a match for their own studied inscrutability...
There were other reasons behind Hanoi's determination to wait and see. Nixon has in fact given nothing away by naming Lodge. The President-elect, who has never concealed his determination to take personal charge of U.S. foreign policy, will serve, in effect, as his own chief bargainer. Nixon is fully cognizant that his No. 1 priority is Viet Nam. Key policies, both at home and abroad, depend upon a speedy settlement of the divisive war that has already claimed 30,644 American lives and drains $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury each year. Like Lyndon Johnson before...