Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overhauled. At a 2½-hr. shirtsleeved meeting with his top political aides on Sunday, he decided to give the task to his closest adviser, White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Jordan accordingly joined the re-election committee as deputy to Chairman Robert Strauss. As Jordan's successor in the White House, Carter named Jack Watson, 41, the former Atlanta lawyer who managed the President's transition team in 1976 and since then has served as presidential assistant for intergovernmental relations and secretary to the Cabinet...
...provides $13.3 million to be used by the Selective Service, which still exists as an agency though it has been dormant since 1975, to carry out only the registration. If Carter or any successor wanted actually to draft anyone from the pool of young men to be registered, he would have to persuade Congress to pass a new law giving Selective Service that power. Selective Service officials expect to take five weeks to get the registration procedure worked out. It will thus probably begin in late July...
...things are unquestionably going to get worse. There is an atmosphere of apprehension. Everyone is waiting to see what will come after the present aging, ill and inflexible oligarchy passes from the scene. The hope is for more dynamism?if not after Brezhnev himself, then after an interim, transitional successor. But that is only a hope...
When Jimmy Carter waspishly slighted his departed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, saying that he hoped Vance's successor would be "a stronger and more statesmanlike figure," Vance stoically said nothing. Last week, for the first time since he resigned in protest against the Iranian rescue mission, Vance spoke out in a major address. His message, as would have been expected, was strong and statesmanlike...
...daily has been owned by its employees, though they do not set the paper's policy. Beuve-Méry, sometimes referred to by staffers as "God," ran a taut one-man editorial operation for 25 years before handing over the reins in 1969 to his hand-chosen successor, Fauvet. Under Fauvet, Le Monde moved perceptibly left, supporting Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian Khmer Rouge. In response to increasing criticism from readers and public officials, Fauvet...