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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jimmy Roosevelt). Leathery Sam Rayburn, who became a Congressman in 1913, before Richard Boiling (or John F. Kennedy) was born, is immune to ideological itches, felt none of the liberal urge to topple Judge Smith. But Rayburn is a damn-the-infidels Democrat, and during last August's postscript session of Congress he got very sore at Smith for bottling up Kennedy's legislative program in the Rules Committee, thereby lending aid and comfort to the Republican enemy only a few months before the election. Last month, with a Democratic President about to take office, Rayburn made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Unblocking the Road | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Postage Due | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...speculates that two years ago de Gaulle could have acceded to the demands of the F.L.N. for compromise "without provoking a revolt by the French soldiers and citizens of Algeria," so strong was his prestige at that time. He is only vaguely optimistic about later prospects, saying in his Postscript (written in 1959) that it is possible that de Gaulle "can impose an Algerian policy of peace upon the French army." The F.L.N. leaders, Aron points out, are the lesser problem; they trust de Gaulle more than any Premier of the Fourth Republic...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Raymond Aron Attacks Myths In Study of Changing France | 11/19/1960 | See Source »

...Republican Senator Hugh Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Democratic Debacle | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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