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...Will Choose." Within minutes. Goulart was deeply involved in the political talk that he calculated would give him more than a figurehead's voice in the affairs of government. Retaining the right to choose his own Prime Minister, Goulart made full use of it. "I and nobody else will choose the Prime Minister," he told congressional leaders, and proceeded to haggle until they finally agreed on a man acceptable to both sides. The choice: Tancredo Neves, 51, a conservative businessman from Minas Gerais, who was Justice Minister under President Getúlio Vargas in 1954 and was now serving...
Even then, some leaders of Tancredo Neves' own party protested. But Goulart wore them down in long hours of argument. Said Goulart. assuming the role of statesmanlike compromiser: "The political parties know, the Congressmen know, everybody knows that I incline more to unite than to divide. I prefer to pacify than to arouse hate. I prefer to harmonize than to stimulate resentments.'' And he added: "I can smell the people and I smell of the people. I assume the presidency with the responsibility of a man who understands reality...
Eminent Respectability. The Cabinet list that Goulart and Neves produced was certainly respectable. To tackle the economic chaos left behind by Kubitschek's inflation and Quadros' panic, they named as Finance Minister Walther Moreira Salles, a banker who twice served ably as Ambassador to the U.S. and has helped negotiate well over $1 billion worth of U.S. credits. As Foreign Minister, Neves named San Tiago Dantas. an expert in international law chosen by Quadros to represent Brazil at this month's U.N. General Assembly session. Congress accepted the entire Cabinet package...
...when Goulart's supply of sweet reason runs low, he can resort to the still powerful leverage left him by the constitutional amendment. He can veto bills passed by any majority less than 60% in Congress, and he can influence Congress itself through the members of his own Labor Party, which holds 70 of the 342 seats. Those 70 votes, added to the 116 of Neves' Social Democratic Party, give the new Prime Minister a bare majority. But if Goulart swings off into leftfield, his precarious majority may well vanish...
Prime Minister Neves is keenly aware of how perilous may be his survival when either an aroused President Goulart or a rebellious Congress may do him in. Sipping a Scotch, he assessed the parlous prospect before him. "I hope," he said, "to last a month at least...