Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President-elect Nixon announced yesterday the appointment of DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Affairs, as his assistant for urban affairs...
President-elect Richard M. Nixon has revealed that he has instituted several recommendations offered by a Harvard-based study of problems in the transition to a Republican administration...
...August, they sent the Republican nominee their first general brief. Another paper on the recruiting of middle level federal officials was in Nixon's hands before Election Day, and the President-elect received the remainder of the studies shortly afterward...
Over the years, Nixon has formed close friendships with two of the nation's best-known preachers: Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale. Nixon occasionally attends Baptist church services with Graham, and one of the President-elect's few public statements on religion was written for Graham's monthly magazine Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion...
...would be disastrous for President-elect Nixon to be persuaded by the top brass of the Pentagon that they could win the Vietnam war militarily in a few more months, Professor Edwin O. Reischauer said yesterday...