Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Konrad Adenauer "re tired" was in 1963, when he grudgingly made way for Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor. But politicians who expected him to fade gracefully from the scene at the age of only 87 were soon proved wrong. In last fall's election campaign, Adenauer sorely embarrassed his successor by electioneering up and down the Rhine, pressing for closer cooperation with Charles de Gaulle, needling Erhard's favorite ally, the U.S., for its supposed nuclear "sellout," and hardly disguising his desire for coalition with the Social Democrats, who were determined to oust Erhard from office...
...political philosophy. "It all indicates to me that I'm pretty much a middle-of-the-roader," says Winters, "which is just what I aim to be." And on the early line, at least, his aim makes him the experts' favorite to be Mike Pearson's successor...
...main goal-and achievement-of the Legion of Decency: to make sure that the Roman Catholic Church and its clergy are presented in an extremely favorable light. The Sandpiper would not, of course, have "passed" had the priest been a Roman Catholic. Maybe the Legion's successor is "sophisticated"-but does it yet believe in freedom of speech where the Roman Catholic Church is concerned...
Restive Help. Amid all this, Lyndon's own White House staff was in a state of fluctuation-again. McGeorge Bundy, Johnson's top inside man for foreign affairs, will soon leave the White House. The President has not yet found a successor for Larry O'Brien, his top Capitol Hill liaison man, who was appointed three months ago as Postmaster General. Bill Moyers is growing restive in his job as White House press secretary. Johnson's No. 1 handyman, Jack Valenti, is even taking Italian lessons and has hopes of being named U.S. Ambassador to Italy...
...Gaulle. For De Gaulle can no longer count on hand-picking his successor, or on his U.N.R. Party's surviving him. No longer, in fact, can he count on a parliamentary majority; in 1967 that may well cease to exist...