Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American autocracy has cost him American friends. His erstwhile foreign wards stand appalled at his posture, and his erstwhile domestic followers wonder why they were so gullible twelve months ago. One year from today he will pass out of the White House and yield his misused authority to a successor. He must always be gratefully remembered for his magnificent spiritual leadership while we were in the throes of battle. He must also be remembered as the man who after winning the war all but lost the peace...
...Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, who has wanted to retire for some time, was expected to get her wish. No likely successor was immediately in sight...
...word on to Marshal Joseph Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring the security of the whole world...
...American who meant everything to the world was gone. His successor, as a person, as yet meant nothing. But already the world was learning that the Presidency did not die with the President...
...broke the news to the press was himself an able, veteran newsman-Steve Early. Taking over from Jonathan Daniels, his successor as White House press secretary, who was shaking and white-faced with shock, Early quickly set up a three-way call to the press associations to tell them simultaneously: "Here is a flash. The President died suddenly early this afternoon...