Word: retains
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...swung behind L.B.J., his successor, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, gathered up his papers and edged into Johnson's front-row aisle seat. It was just about the only solid evidence of his new office that Mansfield was likely to get. In his new role, or roles, Johnson will retain and pick up more titles and perquisites than a Bourbon king. He will continue as presiding officer over the Senate Democratic caucuses and director of party strategy-a job traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help. He was surprised...
Johnson will not only take over the Vice President's ornate ceremonial office, just off the Marble Room, plus a roomy vice-presidential suite in the old Senate Office Building, but will retain his princely old majority leader's office in the Capitol Building, with its gorgeous aquamarine furnishings. Mansfield graciously de cided to keep his cramped old digs on the gallery floor...
President-elect John F. Kennedy '40 will visit the University Monday for January meeting of the Board of Overseers. The sixth Harvard graduate to be elected President, and the third President to serve on the Board, Kennedy will the first Chief Executive to retain his membership while in office...
...President-elect was named to the Board of Overseers in 1957 for a six-year term. John Quincy Adams (1787) served before and after his term as President; Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and Theodore Roosevelt '80 were members of the Board before their elections. By choosing to retain his seat, Kennedy becomes the first to be a member while in office...
...John F. Kennedy will be his own maker of foreign policy. As Rusk sees it, that is just the way it ought to be. "It is possible for the President to delegate too much to his Secretary of State," he says. "The President has great prerogatives, which he must retain in his own hands. The President is in charge of the raw power of the State...