Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Rooney got home to Brooklyn from an "inspection trip" of Latin American embassies, he got an important telephone call. "John," crooned Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson to the chairman of a House subcommittee that handles State Department funds, "the President-elect would like to see you down in Palm Beach next week. Can you make it?" When Rooney allowed that he could indeed, Lyndon Johnson made his own plans to be there too. To muddy up the purpose of the trip, he brought along Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr, Johnson's probable successor as chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...
...turned down for Secretary of State in favor of Dean Rusk, Fulbright had publicly spoken out against one of the key items of the New Frontier legislative program-a proposal to boost the minimum wage from $1 to $1.25. Fulbright got a personal welcome at the West Palm Beach airport, spent long hours in the villa and on the golf course, was treated to an after-dark press conference in the patio. Midway in talk about the need for an ambassador-at-large, Caroline Kennedy toddled out, wearing a robe with a rabbit-eared hood and carrying a pair...
Vaguely aware that the trip had something to do with his perennial pruning of ambassadorial expense allowances (he calls them "booze allowances"), Rooney flew down on schedule, found himself hoteled (at Kennedy's expense) in a luxurious suite at the Palm Beach Towers. Next morning a comely Kennedy secretary drove him from the hotel, prattled through a guided tour of Joe Kennedy's cream-colored villa before depositing him in the library. There was a suitable moment's wait, then in strode Jack, followed shortly by Lyndon, Kerr and incoming Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. (Notably absent: future...
Signs of the Dollar. The expenses of Jack Kennedy's shadow government between election and inauguration will run about $210,000 for salaries, hotels, office space, supplies, phones and travel, including costs incurred by some Kennedy appointees on their revolving-door visits to Palm Beach or Georgetown. Other happy invitees have been paying their own way, and some regular Kennedy staffers are on Kennedy's senatorial payroll budget. The Democratic National Committee will have to pick up the check (as the Republican National Committee...
Bundy, on vacation in the West Indies, made no reply to the Governor, but in a statement the next day at Palm Beach Kennedy slapped back at Furcolo. "I think the governor's objection is that Mr. Bundy opposed him in the 1958 election. I will say that for these positions involving national security, Treasury, Defense and State.... I have attempted to select people regardless of whether they supported...