Word: juscelino
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...power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor, President Juscelino Kubitschek, to speak...
...Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the evening spent at the University was one of reminiscence over his accomplishments as President of Brazil. Stopping by Cambridge in the middle of a rapid lecture tour of the United States, the man who preceded Janio Quadros gave a quick sketch of Brazil's major economic problems and the measures his Administration had designed to deal with them...
...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 a quiet term as a federal Deputy. Politically, he had the value of belonging to ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.), which holds the largest block of seats in Brazil's Congress. Temperamentally, he was the sort that Goulart, himself a political heir to flamboyant old Dictator Vargas, thought he could get along with...
...detested adversary Joao Goulart." Dozens of Senators and Dep uties urged the military men to recon sider. Said Deputy Fernando Ferrari: "I will fight for Jango until the day he is inaugurated. Then I will fight against him." Most influential voice of all was that of ex-President Juscelino Kubi tschek, under whom Goulart had also served as Vice President. "To admit the possibility that constitutional Vice President Goulart will not take office," said Kubitschek, "would belie my entire life and destroy the results of hard, patient and constructive effort undertaken for five years in favor of obedience...
When the scandal-haunted old dictator committed suicide in 1954, it was Goulart who inherited Vargas' Brazilian Labor Party. The following year he helped win the presidency for Juscelino Kubitschek and the vice-presidency for himself. Goulart used cash and patronage to grease his own political machinery, allied himself with Communists, and last year again won the vice-presidency...