Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week federal judges declared the plan approved by the Democratic state legislature unconstitutional and demanded a new plan by March 22. The discarded maps, which had been signed into law last January by Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne just hours before Thomas Kean, a Republican, was sworn in as his successor, had been challenged in court by the state's seven Republican Congressmen, who argued that the plan was drawn mainly to help elect Democrats. "Hurray!" said Kean, with a partisan cheer after hearing of the court's decision. "That good-for-nothing plan was not good...
Sontag, 49, has been an eclectic revolutionary ever since the early 1960s, when her dense, demanding essays prompted the New York literary elite to crown her Mary McCarthy's successor as the "Dark Lady of American Letters." In an essay on her 1968 trip to Hanoi, Sontag described herself as "a Western neoradical for whom revolution means not only creating political and economic justice but releasing and validating personal energies of all kinds, including erotic ones." McCarthy, who has long been a stalwart of the anti-Soviet left, was among those who stood up for Sontag after her Solidarity...
...just received an Israeli request for long-term military assistance. He would disapprove it, he said. In fact, he would cut off all military deliveries to Israel until it agreed to a comprehensive peace. He regretted not having done so earlier; he would make up for it now. His successor would thank...
...without wondering what other game he might be engaged in. It was exciting but draining, even slightly menacing. With Ford, there were no hidden designs, no morbid suspicions, no complexes. I reflected again on the wisdom of providence. Gerald Ford was clearly not Nixon's first choice as successor; John Connally was. I could think of no public figure better able to lead us in national renewal than this man so quintessentially American, of unquestioned integrity, at peace with himself, thoughtful and knowledgeable, calm and unafraid...
...accelerate Nixon's collapse rather than delay it. It was more tempting for Democrats to remove Nixon if his successor seemed to be someone they thought they could beat...