Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chalmers has conjectured that only about half of the College would elect to plan their own program and that the other half "would prefer to be told what to do." But many people feel to tied-town by the current rules, he said, and such a system would "provide the greatest flexibility for those who want...
...were given at a Washington seminar last week for some 500 Young Republicans. Opening the four-day "leadership training" conference was outgoing Republican National Chairman Dean Burch, who advised the heavily pro-Goldwater audience: "Let's not be so enthralled with further fratricide that we can't elect men in 1966. And let's stop castigating and start cultivating the press. We Republicans are not sick, we're not dead, we're not dying, and we're not ready for the ashcan of history. We're not so down and out that...
...cast their electoral votes for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Under Johnson's proposal, each state's electoral votes would count only for the candidate who carries the state. Under the present system, moreover, the Electoral College can choose anybody-not necessarily the Vice President-elect-to be President if the President-elect dies before inauguration. By wiping out the Electoral College, the Johnson proposal would stipulate that the Vice President-elect must be inaugurated as President in such cases...
...public servant, so faithful a husband and devoted a father, so witty, learned, and profound an orator, writer, and thinker, so genial a friend, prayerful a Christian, and enlightened a statesman-he is better off in Heaven, where, according to an electoral oration in Ohio by Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, we may now confidently assume...
...Politics. In the 1960 presidential primary fight, Neustadt backed Hubert Humphrey until Humphrey's defeat in West Virginia, then switched to another loser, Lyndon B. Johnson. It was only in September 1960 that he joined the Kennedy team, outlining in a memorandum the matters to which a President-elect should attend between November and inauguration. Fascinated with the mystique of power, Kennedy had read Neustadt's book and told newsmen how impressed he was. This was a mistake, says Neustadt. A President should never admit that others are telling him how to run the presidency-it damages...