04/18/1961
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"MR. SECRETARY, I want to express our great pleasure at removing the Mayor from the position of Mayor of Cleveland and making him Secretary of HEW"
"It represents an extremely difficult administrative job."
"I think that his work as a State legislator in Ohio, as mayor again and again, re-elected by the people by overwhelming majorities, indicates his very keen knowledge of the day-to-day problems of the ..."
"He confirmed the willingness of the United States to offer in accordance with the spirit of the Declaration of Neutrality made by the Royal Government of Laos on July 9, 1962, its moral and material s..."