Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Place "observers" in the State and Defense departments and the Budget Bureau. Precedent is Harry Truman's election-night telegram to Ike in 1952: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory . . . You should have a representative meet with the Director of the Budget immediately." (Ike did.) ¶Be prepared to offer a revised budget soon after inauguration. Candidate Nixon estimated that his program would cost nearly $5 billion more than President Eisenhower's, and Candidate Kennedy's avowed plans would presumably cost considerably more than Nixon's. ¶Appoint Cabinet members-not forgetting the gravely important presidential science...
...team, and this time the stay-at-homes jokingly plastered the team's lockers with pictures of air crashes. Even so, many an envious rooter turned out to see the 35 members of the team, four coaches, the manager, doctor and a sportswriter from the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune off on the big junket...
...matter of time, of when Nixon awakened on the Coast and finally made up his mind. At 11 a.m. Wilson predicted a move within an hour and a half; it came at 12:45 p.m., when Nixon's press secretary, Herbert Klein, made public the Vice-President's telegram of congratulation to Senator Kennedy...
...prime concern among O'Connor supporters in the closing days of the campaign was whether Kennedy would endorse (beyond the standard telegram sent to all candidates) O'Connor when the senator came to Boston last Monday. Kennedy did, but Massachusetts split its ballot...
Again, Nixon sent a telegram to Kennedy, refusing a fifth debate until the Senator had apologized for suggesting that the G.O.P. candidate was afraid to debate him again. When Kennedy was handed this message--it was last Friday in northeastern Pennsylvania--he laughed, as if to say, "What will this two-bit politician do next...