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...struck up a close friendship with a young Congressman, Lyndon Johnson. When Johnson became a Senator, he drafted Cook to become counsel to his famed Senate Preparedness subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair. I don't think there's an abler man in Government." Don Cook is now one of the President's most-heeded business advisers and is talked of in Washington as a possible candidate for Secretary of the Treasury in a new Johnson Administration...
...Although I am a mediocre, yet I find that a mediocre like me is able to produce something new and original, not in a very high sense, but whatever new things are suggested in the Ministry, well, they generally come from me, and the officers who are far, far abler than myself go on with their routine way of thinking and, perhaps, their routine way of working...
Failure to Impress. Wagner had to work uncommonly hard for his third term. A docile favorite of Tammany Hall during his first seven years, Wagner this year annoyed the bosses by picking his own-and abler-running mates: Civil Servants Abraham Beame for controller, Paul Screvane for council president. For that effrontery, Wagner had to defeat State Controller Arthur Levitt, the bosses' choice, in a primary to win the Democratic nomination. But the primary gave Wagner what he badly needed: an issue. Ignoring the past, the mayor promised to put an end to "boss rule" if reelected, vowed...
...Pigs operation. The rebuttal prepared for delivery by Lemnitzer blamed the subsequent failure on the withholding of key information by civilians. After hearing Lemnitzer, Tennessee's Albert Gore stalked out with an angry demand that all the Chiefs of Staff "be replaced by new, wiser and abler...
Whiteman said that Yale based its teaching methods on the expediency of individual situations rather than a cover-all philosophy, citing difficulties with the faculty as one reason. But Monro pointed out that through experiments like Freshman Seminars Harvard is seeking to meet the challenge of abler Freshmen...