Word: furcolo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hiss, adding that "Hiss could have been a little more grateful." For that kind of comment, Bundy had a run-in or two with the late Senator Joe McCarthy, who tried to get William Bundy fired from a CIA job. Another old foe is Massachusetts' ex-Governor Foster Furcolo, who denounced Bundy as "completely unqualified" for Government service-obviously in response to Bundy's 1958 gubernatorial campaign attacks. But Kennedy had other views, gave him the tough assignment of planning long-range policy for the National Security Council...
...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...
...past.'' In a way, the Kennedy Administration is coming in at an opportune time, he believes. "The duplication and false starts we had were kind of necessary. We learned a lot from it, including how not to do some things." Kennedy Hater. Massachusetts' outgoing Governor Foster Furcolo is boiling mad at his treatment at the hands of the Kennedys, and he doesn't care who knows it. Under Kennedy pressure he named Kennedy's Harvard roommate, Gloucester Businessman and Sports Fisherman Benjamin Smith II, to fill Jack Kennedy's Senate seat for two years...
When Smith showed up last week at Furcolo's office at the Governor's request to pick up his qualification papers, he was kept waiting for 2½ hours. Then a secretary told him that the Governor was ill at home ("I understand perfectly," said Smith); whereupon two women commissioning officers administered the oath of office. Next day Furcolo was back at work...
...Woodrow Wilson's letter to his brother, refusing to appoint him postmaster of Nashville, Tenn.... Trottenberg still says the MTA will be running "any day now".... Bundy completes his reorganization of the National Security Council and announces another Harvard appointment: Carle Tucker as director of the new NSC cafeteria. Furcolo in his American column decries the selection and Bundy. "Mr. Bundy is not just a bad administrator," Furcolo writes, "he is a wicked...