Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIET NAM. The President-elect's first order of business will be to settle the war, if only for domestic reasons. In the Brookings report, Gordon argued: "The brutality and horror of the war-made vivid as in no previous war by the immediacy of television; the corrosive and divisive effects of the war on American society; and the budgetary drain of the war which has shortchanged urgent domestic claims-all dictate that ending the war must lead all other tasks on the President's agenda." Yet the report concedes that the end of the fighting "will...
Richard Nixon continued his slow methodical labors at transition. His attention focused on Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, whom the President-elect would like to persuade to stay on in his arduous job. Failing that, Nixon may turn to Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 56, whose experience on the Senate Armed Services Committee and hard-line views on U.S. defense policy would equip him well, in Nixon's view, to take over at the Pentagon. Democratic regulars have taken to referring to such possible apostates as "Uncle Toms...
There was some puzzlement, because Klein, a Nixon friend and adviser from the earliest days of the President-elect's political career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
...unprecedented and even-by sedate congressional standards -slightly ungentlemanly step of turning over to the FBI a list of organizations that had been delinquent in filing their accounts. The offenders include the Cincinnati-based National Coordinating Committee for Humphrey and no fewer than 20 Republican committees organized to elect the Nixon-Agnew ticket. The G.O.P. contributions came to $14.6 million of the candidates' total $20 million-plus campaign expenditure. "It was something," says Jennings apologetically, "that I just couldn...
...like the small boy who didn't get an invite to the party and just wrote his own and came anyway," he told the hostess. On his way out, he paused and mentioned to no one in particular that he was staying at the Pierre, where President-elect Nixon has established his Manhattan headquarters. "Nixon has very good judgment about hotels," he mused. "I hope he has as good judgment about running the country. Because he's the pilot now, and we're all on the same plane...