Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's special assistant for science and technology. Almost daily, he pops in and out of the President's office or on and off the President's private telephone line. More and more, the President holds off proposals with a "Let's see what Jim thinks about this.'' Among the most meaningful scribbles on official memorandums is "Killian has no objections." At a recent press conference, the President, asked whether the U.S. ought to get a Cabinet-level department of science, said he thought not, but that "one of my appointments today is with...
Balanced Panels. Much of Jim Killian's influence derives from the need that the President and the nation had for such a man when he went to Washington last fall. The Communists had put up Sputnik I, and the editorialists were crying for a "Science Czar." Dr. Killian got the headlines, if not the specific job. He added to his influence at once with a shot of his old M.I.T. organizational energy. He expanded membership of the President's Science Advisory Committee from twelve to 17, recruited scores of scientists coast to coast...
...March 8, 1954). Among the many other covers on which McConaughy reported: Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, McCarthy Committee Lawyer Ray Jenkins, Georgia's Senator Walter George. Last year, weeks before the historic Senate battle on civil rights legislation reached its climax, Jim McConaughy laid down clearly and accurately the complex strategic and tactical lines, furnished the reporting on a cover about Georgia's Senator Richard Russell. Just six weeks ago he traveled to California, reported that Democrat Pat Brown would lead Republican Bill Knowland by 600,000 votes in the pivotal gubernatorial primary. McConaughy...
Last week, when news of Jim McConaughy's death saddened Capitol Hill, Senator after Senator arose to pay him tribute as man and newsman. Said Acting Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "He was a great newspaperman, a good friend." And TIME's Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce spoke for us all in mourning Jim McConaughy: "He was dedicated to the service of his country and of truth...
...needed by a Cabinet minister. Aneurin Bevan, so long the terror of the Tories, summed up Labor's position: "We do not commend these proposals . . . but we advise the Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly be flexible." Labor did not want to upset...