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...retaining Clifford, who would have supplied both experience in the job and the Democratic presence that Nixon wanted for the Cabinet. Then Nixon decided against keeping any of the present Cabinet officers. Using Florida Democrat George Smathers as their intermediary, the Nixon camp next sounded out Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington. Jackson expressed interest, but had a number of conditions. Among them was an agreement that Nixon would persuade Governor Dan Evans, a Republican, to appoint a Democrat as Jackson's successor...
Richard Nixon continued his slow methodical labors at transition. His attention focused on Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, whom the President-elect would like to persuade to stay on in his arduous job. Failing that, Nixon may turn to Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 56, whose experience on the Senate Armed Services Committee and hard-line views on U.S. defense policy would equip him well, in Nixon's view, to take over at the Pentagon. Democratic regulars have taken to referring to such possible apostates as "Uncle Toms...
...took a proprietary pride in covering their home town. Herald reporters dogged Richard Nixon's footsteps. And where they could not follow, a tape recorder did. A helpful delegate carried one in his pocket to Nixon's meeting with some Southern delegations. The results made the biggest scoop of the week. Nixon assured the Dixie politicians that he had given only grudging support to the federal open-housing law, and felt such matters ought to be left to local decision. He would appoint "strict constitutionalists" to the U.S. Supreme Court. The thrust of his remarks seemed to indicate...
...Kennedy stood on his convertible's hood with his Irish cocker spaniel Freckles at his feet. At Mt. Vernon and North Champion Avenues in the Negro Near East Side, friendly crowds engulfed the car. Admirers fell over each other and into the motorcade's path; Kennedy aides had to scoop children from harm's way. One mother plunked her baby on Ethel's lap, trotted alongside for ten blocks while Ethel held the child. At one point, Bobby, his shirttails flying, his hair mussed, his cufflinks gone,* was hauled off the car bodily and had to be dragged back from...
...green. At home, wearing tattered white sneakers, baggy pants, a turtleneck jersey and a shaggy haircut, he romps with his four children-Elizabeth, Michael, David and Miranda-or plays in a recorder group with Mary. On a winter morning, he might emerge from his 13-room white saltbox house, scoop up an armful of snow and heave ten decimal points against the stop sign on the corner. On a summer morning, he can go out to his small garden and properly cultivate a nice crop of lettuce. Almost any day he can get into his dented 1963 Corvair, drive down...