Word: kubitscheks
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...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 to law and the constitution." Having said his piece, he added: "Now it's my turn to get arrested. It's hopeless. The people...
...Congress debated, Kubitschek went to work on Denys (who had been War Minister under Kubitschek as well as under Quadros). He also telephoned the waiting Goulart in Paris. "Don't even consider civil war, which can only do vast damage to the nation," he said. "Have patience and wait...
After two days, Kubitschek was on the phone again to Paris to report Denys' reluctant agreement to hold fire. Goulart cabled the old marshal: "I am returning to Brazil to fulfill my duty, and I hope your excellency will fulfill yours." He then boarded a jet for the long journey home, cautiously skirting the borders of Brazil by flying first to New York and then down the west coast of South America...
...Denys struggled to convince his more militant partners-the navy and air ministers-to follow his lead and give way to what was obviously the popular will. They wanted to know in advance one key fact: Who's going to be the Premier? The man most agreeable to Kubitschek and to Brazil's key governors was Bahia's plump and placid but steely-nerved Governor Juracy Magalhaes, a reserve general, and head of Brazil's major conservative party. Said Juracy: "If you want me to serve, and there is no one else, I will...
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...