Word: successors
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Indeed, he considered it more a clumsy attempt at flattery by the President, who privately bragged to top aides that he had Petersen "on a short leash," than an actual job offer. Later Nixon appoint ed Clarence Kelley as permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover...
...Mahatma Gandhi, who tried to teach his countrymen the virtues of pacifism, the idea that his nation might one day become a nuclear power with a deadly arsenal of warheads seems all but unthinkable. In 1968 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-daughter of Gandhi's great friend and political successor, Jawaharlal Nehru-warned Indians that nothing would help their enemies more "than for us to lose our sense of perspective and to undertake measures that undermine the basic progress of the country." Yet India has just exploded an atomic device-somewhat smaller than the one dropped on Hiroshima beneath...
Hall also said the administration "can go either way" on the reorganization proposal and that the decision whether to accept the plan will be guided by Tonis's successor...
Mansfield agreed that Kissinger's reputation was making the search for his successor "more difficult." He said that the position requires "a thorough knowledge of diplomatic history, West European relations and strategic policy...
Harvard will postpone consideration of a plan to reorganize the University police department until a successor to retiring police chief Robert Tonis is chosen, Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday...