Word: presidentelect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choosing a successor to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Presidentelect Jimmy Carter could hardly have selected anyone with a more contrasting style. Cyrus Roberts Vance is a low-key, prudent team player who made his reputation as a skilled troubleshooter for Lyndon Johnson. He is so uncomfortable with personal publicity that photographs often show him wearing a slightly rueful half-smile...
Rogers' ability attracted Nixon when both men were new in Washington and Rogers, as counsel for the Senate Executive Expenditure Committee, was busy exposing Truman Administration "Five Percenters" who had accepted bribes on Government contracts. Years later, when Nixon became Presidentelect, he decided to offer his old friend the Secretary of State's job. In Miami, accepting the Republican nomination for President, Nixon had said: "After an era of confrontation, the time has come for an era of negotiation." When he introduced his new Cabinet to a national television audience one night in December 1968, Nixon recalled this...