Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Them." Understandably, Freeman did not want the job. After Freeman was defeated in 1960 for a fourth term as Governor of Minnesota, his friend Senator Hubert Humphrey assured him that he would get a high post on the New Frontier-possibly Secretary of Agriculture. "I don't want to be Secretary of Agriculture," Freeman pleaded. "Don't let them make me Secretary of Agriculture." But that was the job Freeman was offered-and that was the job he took. Ever since, he has been working at it with all the desperate intensity of his nature...
...Secretary McNamara. "Orville is a man," says Bobby Kennedy. "He's a bulldog," says a member of Congress. Says Freeman himself: "I admire two-fisted people. Pussyfooting around doesn't appeal to me." Though he is a city boy, Freeman sometimes seems a bit homespun by New Frontier standards. His speech is sprinkled with harmless little bromides such as "You can't get halfway up a hill-you got to go all the way." His favorite movie fare is gunsmoky westerns...
Even among the energetic young men of the New Frontier, Freeman is notably diligent. He gets up at 6:30 every morning, starts the day with nip-ups, and is sitting at his desk by 8. When he leaves the office in the evening, he carries home two briefcases. He had a little office built in the basement of his suburban Maryland house, and after dinner he goes down there and pores over the contents of the briefcases until midnight. Sunday is the only day he reserves for his family: Wife Jane, Daughter Constance, 17, and Son Mike, 14. Freeman...
...audience some pats on the back: "Most city folks are not aware of the benefits they derive from your success." He gave himself some too: "I am pleased that we have made real progress in the last two years." What he said was the familiar fodder of New Frontier farm speeches, but he said it with plenty of oratorical zing, and his audience interrupted 24 times with applause...
...their own black Rendilles, who cover themselves with feathers; with their Turkanas, who wear little except mud hats; and with the Marilles, who wear only rifles. Thus, Britain's Sandys was bound to make enemies -and to risk violence-no matter what his decision about Kenya's frontier...