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Neither did Ghana's Ambassador to Moscow, J. B. Elliot. Next day, as students again massed near the embassy, he closed the building (for "repairs" to damaged furniture), raised no objection as police herded the angry Ghanaians away. Elliot tried to laugh off the melee, dismissed talk of widespread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: We Too Are People | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

The living is easy these days for Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, 68. A few political cronies slip into Madrid for a little political plotting, but mostly he just walks his poodle and sits around with his third wife, Isabel. The Argentines seemed content to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

A second objection is that the Speaker is not a representative of the whole nation. In formulating the present succession law in 1947, President Truman recommended the substitution of the Speaker for the Secretary of State as second man in the line of succession because the Speaker is an elected...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Presidential Succession | 12/19/1963 | See Source »

Another objection to the present succession law is its doubtful constitutionality. Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution empowers Congress to declare "what officer" shall act as President in the event of the President's death or removal. A series of Supreme Court decisions, however, seems to imply that members...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Presidential Succession | 12/19/1963 | See Source »

A final objection is that the Speaker may be of a different party and political philosophy than the President he succeeds. In becoming President following a national disaster he might destroy the continuity and stability so important to the national welfare after a President's death. Johnson's smooth takeover...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Presidential Succession | 12/19/1963 | See Source »

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