Word: kubitscheks
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...while last week, it had seemed that this whole ambitious schedule would be bogged down in a swamp of protocol. Advised that foreign governments might balk at giving him the full red-carpet treatment before Brazil's slow-moving Electoral Tribunal officially declared him President-elect, Kubitschek first announced a postponement of the trip. Flurries of messages buzzed between Rio and Brazilian embassies abroad. From Paris, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Lisbon, Bonn and The Hague came assurances that Kubitschek would be treated as President-elect, certified or not. The U.S. State Department followed along. London almost got scratched from...
...edge of the driveway near his Key West holiday quarters, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower greeted Brazil's smiling President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek with a brisk handshake. After posing for press photographs with his visitor, the President ushered him inside for a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, necessarily hurried because Kubitschek was due in Washington at 1 p.m. to address the U.S. Congress...
Forgoing his gimpy English, the President-elect talked to Ike in Portuguese, translated by Brazil's Washington Ambassador Joāo Carlos Muniz. After breakfast Kubitschek bade farewell to his host, and raced back to the Brazilian commercial airliner that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon-all in 17 hectic days...
...Washington, Kubitschek found Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey waiting at the airport. Sped to the Capitol behind a motorcycle escort, the visitor, 80 minutes late, found the House adjourned and half the Senate absent. With a translator's help, he delivered a seven-minute speech to the Senate, drew five rounds of applause. The U.S. and Brazil, he said, "share the same ideals, the same sentiments, the same respect for the paramount dignity...
...luncheon the following day, the toastmaster introduced Kubitschek as a man who had made good "in Horatio Alger style." The tag was entirely accurate. Brazil's President-elect, now a trim, well-groomed 54, was reared in poverty. He worked his way through medical school by working nights as a telegrapher, eventually became a fashionable surgeon, later gave up his profitable practice to enter politics. Elected governor of the Texas-sized state of Minas Gerais, he made his name as a builder, with a long list of roads, power plants and schools to his credit. Running for President...