Word: predecessors
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...White House at the moment, there is something like an essay contest in progress among a few aides and speechwriters attempting to give verbal shape to the President's philosophy. If nothing else, the episode illustrates a difference between Nixon and his predecessor; it short-circuits the imagination to conceive of Lyndon Johnson approving of such a staff forum on what he was thinking, or ought to think...
Others joined the press in protest. Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor at the Justice Department, said: "I think there has been a change in policy if general warrants are being issued, and I have a feeling of great uneasiness about it." Clark warned against destroying "the effectiveness of the press...
While President Nixon delivered his State of the Union address, his predecessor was off fishing. Tanned and fit-looking, Lyndon Baines Johnson left Acapulco for a day's deep-sea cruising in the Pacific, but not before sounding very much like a politician about to make a move. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz was "my good Mexican friend," Acapulco "the place we enjoy," the Mexican people "the people we love." Does the ex-President really have any ambitions south of the border? A certain Texas judge was rumored to be acting in L.B.J.'s interest when...
...Manning, appointed last year as coadjutor archbishop with right of succession, is a man curiously like Pope Paul himself, progressive in social matters, conservative in doctrine. A longtime auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, and later bishop of Fresno, County Cork-born Manning will probably be quicker than his predecessor to put into use Vatican-approved reforms such as the new Mass. If he is not likely to look kindly on avant-garde experimentation or liberal views on doctrine, he will, unlike Mclntyre, almost certainly have a more ready ear for complaints. "The church must make her own the social needs...