Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President-elect John Kennedy stood in the patio of his father's Palm Beach villa last week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there, I am hopeful we can improve the postal service." said Kennedy. With this typically self-confident postscript, Jack Kennedy's selection of his Cabinet was complete...
Soon after the election. Jack Kennedy called his closest advisers together in Palm Beach for a session on Cabinetmaking. His instructions were succinct: "I want to get the best men I can for these Cabinet jobs, and I don't care if they are Democrats, Republicans or Igorots." Kennedy's lieutenants thereupon set forth on the great man hunt. It was a long, laborious and tedious process, checking out the past performances and future potentialities of dozens of men. There were grumblings that Kennedy was vacillating and taking a long time with the job.* But when...
...would be assuming a public office with such awesome responsibilities that the virtues or shortcomings of its incumbent could affect the destinies of the world. He was Dean Rusk, 51, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and he was on his way home from Palm Beach, Fla., where, on a sunlit porch two days before, President-elect John F. Kennedy had announced his appointment as the next Secretary of State...
...took ten sticks of dynamite, some blasting caps and wire, and began to shadow Jack Kennedy. He cased the cottage in Hyannisport, sized up the house in Georgetown, headed south for Palm Beach. "The security," he said later, "was lousy." His plans were to rig himself up as a human bomb and explode in Kennedy's presence. "The Kennedy money bought him the White House," Richard Pavlick said. "I wanted to teach the United States the presidency is not for sale...
...security was not all that asleep. The Secret Service got word of a letter Pavlick had written, proclaiming his ambitions. A nationwide alarm went out for his arrest. On Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach last week, a policeman spotted Pavlick's car, arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy...