Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only when he threw away the script, turned on his famed charm and hand-pumped his way through crowded rooms did Rockefeller make the impression he sought. And in the most careful, subtle way, he limned the first faint outlines of his campaign strategy. Rockefeller, the independent, offhanded (and astute) winner of the 1958 New York campaign for Governor, is out to convince the party regulars that 1) he is a serious organization Republican; 2) he has no quarrel with the Administration, but the country needs new men for new and unprecedented problems; and 3) competition among candidates is healthy...
...Oregon, Rockefeller responded in kind to the warm welcome of young (37) Governor Mark O. Hatfield, who, he said, would make a "wonderful" Vice President. And his feinting attacks moved closer to Dick Nixon. Following a speech at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, a student asked Rockefeller if he thought Nixon could get enough Democratic and independent support to win the presidency. Rocky, for the first time, expressed some oblique doubts. "I wouldn't know the answer to that," he solemnly told his 8,500 listeners...
...Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Missouri's Stuart Symington, the Democratic Party's two hottest presidential hopefuls, joined a group whose policies and pronouncements are generally somewhat to the port side of their own: the ultra-liberal Democratic Advisory Council. The two new members make D.A.C. participation almost unanimous for presidential aspirants. Among the other members: Adlai Stevenson and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. Conspicuously absent: Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Texas entry, who has refused D.A.C. membership and, with other conservative Democrats...
...fiscal 1961 with his top Cabinet officers. "Gentlemen," he had told them at a session fortnight before in Washington, "you are going to have to prove each item to me." Despite pressures of rising prices and cries for ever more costly military hardware, the President was determined to make a balanced budget his top domestic priority...
Beneath this wide sweep of policy was a bedrock Administration decision to make the sound dollar the basis for the U.S. economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...