Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years ago who really assembled the Great Society and Lyndon Johnson who was now opening up the New Frontier. If so, it was a prosperous, well-behaved and superbly dressed frontier-and a dazzling show. The colors and sounds and faces seemed always the same, suspended for a brief moment, only to shift into new combinations, new designs, new moods. Scenes of high and solemn moment, as in the oath taking, swiftly changed to crowded dance floors, to prancing horses and strutting drum majorettes, to humming cocktail parties, wriggling teenagers, somber prayers, to ear-shattering brass bands endlessly playing...
...Senator Joe Clark, Commerce Secretary John Conner, Louisiana's Congressman Hale Boggs, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Postmaster General John Gronowski and Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag. He delighted the crowd when he helped hoist Margaret Truman Daniel over the rail at her box and took her for a brief spin on the floor...
...stock market tried last week to hurdle the magical 900 mark on the Dow-Jones industrial averages but at the last moment shied away like a nervous horse. Twice during the week, while Wall Street watched with fascinated suspense, the market edged above 900 for brief periods during the day. Each time, however, scared that it had gone too high too fast, it retreated. After eleven straight days of advance, it closed on the day before President Johnson's oath-taking at 896.27, a new record, then eased off to end the week below...
...will shortly leave the Army; in the meantime, his brief military career is interesting, mainly as an illustration of the versatility, the pushing energy, and--its complement--the precocious worldly wisdom of the man. In less than four years he has seen something of three campaigns--not an ungenerous allowance for a field officer of longer service than Mr. Churchill counts years of life...
That's part of what went on during my very brief sojourn in the Sproul Hall basement--before the Alameda D.A.'s office invited me upstairs, where the officially approved versions of the news--which always appear on the front pages of your and my daily newspapers--can be reported without ever having to leave the "public information office...