Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment of his selection in December, Government officials, fellow academics and journalists have scrutinized his every move. William Buckley wrote to him: "Not since Florence Nightingale has any public figure received such universal acclamation." Senator Jacob Javits commented that Kissinger's appointment could prove to be the most significant the President has made, because "it is in foreign policy that the Nixon Administration will make its mark...
...much power Kissinger has, it is too soon to gauge his long-term influence on Nixon. For the present, he clearly has a great deal. He sees the President an average of 90 minutes a day, apart from formal meetings of the National Security Council. Secretary of State William Rogers and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird are not experts in their fields; Kissinger is in his. While Rogers and Laird have been relatively slow in reorganizing their mammoth departments, Kissinger immediately attracted attention by his speedy recruitment of staff members, many of them well-known specialists. Most of his aides...
...attorney for the National League since 1950, was so far inside that he was lost in the shuffle of names mentioned for the job, which included everyone from Stan Musial to Hubert Humphrey. Kuhn's appointment was as big a surprise as the owners' previous choice, William D. Eckert, a retired Air Force general who was so far outside baseball that he had little feel or flair for the sport and its problems of modernization...
...nominated for an Oscar as Bette Davis' wryly sagacious maid in All About Eve, for the tart relief she brought to such confections as The Mating Season (1951) and Pillow Talk (1959) and for three other roles, but never won the award. Said Thelma: "I'm the William Jennings Bryan of acting...
...Pappas. He raised the money in nine days of hectic telephoning to other friends of the G.O.P. Then Tom Pappas dropped in on some old acquaintances. He visited Ike and Mamie Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital, chatted with Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and with Secretary of State William Rogers went over the names of some candidates for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Greece...