Word: successor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...structure amounted to an obstructive bureaucracy. The Kennedy Administration did away with the subsidiary boards and operated on a more informal basis, with McGeorge Bundy running the White House's "little State Department." Lyndon Johnson continued the Kennedy practice, first with Bundy and then with his successor, Walt Rostow...
...President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
...fell into conversation with Williams and two other guests. He reminisced for a bit about the Old West and Artist Frederic Remington, one of his favorites. Then he spoke of the vast relief he would feel when he turned his office, with all of its pressures, over to his successor...
...only won a seat on the new "supercommittee," but also became head of the new Czech party bureau, created as a separate party wing for the nation's Czech majority -a job that gives him a readymade political base. All in all, he now ranks as a possible successor...
...Antonio Salazar's life ticked away in a Lisbon clinic, his successor, Premier Marcello Caetano, was cautiously trying to revive the political life of Portugal that has been comatose for the past 40 years under Salazar...