Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became the G.O.P.'s nominee in August, has since spoken on the phone with the President perhaps a dozen times. Last week, just six days after the election, Dick and Pat called on Lyndon and Lady Bird. The four lunched together. Then, as the hostess took her successor for a tour, the men went to work. Sitting in a familiar spot-the Cabinet Room's vice presidential seat-Nixon was briefed on major security problems by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and other ranking officials. After three hours and 50 minutes, Johnson and Nixon faced the press...
...tours and lunch in the basement mess. For the first time, the terms of the 1964 Presidential Transition Act were in force. The act authorizes up to $900,000 for the expenses of the changeover and allows the President to make available extensive facilities, including office space, for his successor's advance party. Johnson went beyond the letter of the law by letting Nixon use his new, heavily armored, $175,000 Lincoln limousine, though he has yet to try it out himself...
...split in the P.D.P. contributed to its defeat. Outgoing Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella was Muñoz' handpicked successor but ran afoul of the old man -and much of the island's Roman Catholic population-when he divorced his wife of 31 years and married a younger woman. Opposed by Muñoz for renomination, Sánchez bolted the P.D.P. to run as a third-party candidate. He pulled 87,000 votes that probably would otherwise have gone to the P.D.P...
Miss du Bois' successor has not as yet been chosen, Mary I. Bunting said yesterday that a committee was formed last spring to choose a qualified woman to fill the chair and that at least 30 names have been suggested--soem from abroad, some relatively young, and some distinguished older scholar. Mrs. Bunting declined to mention any names since these women are not aware that they are being considered for the position...
Because the chair is open to a woman in any academic area, members of the committee to choose a successor represent various departments. Mrs. Bunting is the committee's chairman; members include: Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Psychology; John L. Clive, professor of History and Literature; Giles Constable, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History; Jean-Jacques Demorest, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and natural Philosophy; and Charles A. Whitney, professor of Astronomy...