Word: ordaz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's 60th President stepped out onto the balcony of the austere National Palace, the sun burst through the overcast, warming the sea of upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
...Fundamental Task. The fiesta mood was well founded. Of twelve Presidents who have taken office since Mexico's 1910 revolution, Diaz Ordaz, 53, is the first to inherit a prosperous and united nation that faces no immediate major problems. True to the Mexican pattern of orderly alternation between regimes that are to the left or right of center, Diaz Ordaz, who was Minister of the Interior under López Mateos, is slightly more conservative than his predecessor, who nonetheless hand-picked him for the job. As the new President made clear in his inaugural address, his administration, like...
Humphrey has suffered other disappointments. He had been tentatively selected as head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Gustavo Diaz Ordaz this month. But Senator Mike Mansfield complained that, as the President's legislative leader, he needed the assignment to demonstrate his high standing with the Administration. That made sense to Johnson; he canceled Humphrey's appointment and put Mansfield in his place...
...version of Grauman's Chinese Theater forecourt, already includes the names of John Kennedy, all seven original U.S. astronauts, and Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Last week, in a favorite ranch ritual, Lyndon added two new ones as Mexico's President-elect Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Wife Guadalupe stooped to etch their signatures with nails in the fresh cement...
...purpose of the Díaz Ordaz visit was a round of private talks with Johnson on trade, migrant labor, the Alliance for Progress, and the like. But before they began, the Mexicans found out how extensive L.B.J. hospitality can be. Lyndon jockeyed out to meet the Díaz Ordaz plane on the asphalt runway behind the ranch house in his electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even...