Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finding the right man to be Secretary of Defense proved a more difficult chore. At first the President-elect considered 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...
All along, Nixon was looking for a Negro of stature and ability. Three are known to have rejected his offers: Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Ersa Poston, president of the New York Civil Service Commission. Now the Nix...
Nixon had also been trying to get a big-name Democrat, or at least a big name, for the ambassadorship to the United Nations. The post is not technically of Cabinet rank, but since the Eisenhower Administration it has had a quasi-Cabinet cachet. The fact that it also has...
Meanwhile, speculation arose as to why, if the accusations are accurate, Nixon chose that course. One theory is that Nixon was trying to force Johnson to drop the Goldberg proposal. Neither Nixon nor some of his conservative al lies, such as Senator Strom Thurmond, want a liberal like Goldberg leading...
As the G.O.P. readied itself for Jan. 20, Democratic leaders still eyed one another warily and scanned the distant horizon. There was an appearance of cohesion: Hubert Humphrey had led the Democrats to a defeat but not to a debacle. Most encouraging was that in Senator Edward Kennedy the party...