Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGRICULTURE: Bluntly, the Johnson Administration has no idea what to propose for farm legislation this session. In his State of the Union address, Lyndon settled for brief platitudes, calling for "new approaches"-a phrase that drew laughter from him and his advisers as they drafted it. There is some talk in the Administration of lower support prices for larger, prosperous farmers, and higher ones for smaller growers. No matter what Johnson dreams up to mold the U.S. agricultural mess to fit the shape of a Great Society, 1965 farm legislation will be a sticky problem. Says Carl Albert: "This will...
After stating that Johnson is essentially "domestically oriented," Sidey outlined Johnson's view of the International situation. The survey was brief and general...
...state of Lyndon thus seemed to be as sound as the State of the Union, the same could not be said for the shape of U.S. foreign relations. One of the President's visitors at the ranch was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who flew down to brief him on the latest turns in the perennial Viet Nam crisis. One prominent White House wit held that the mess in Viet Nam was no worse than the mess inside the Republican Party, but the joke really wasn't very funny. The fact is that, for all his domestic achievements...
...Secret Service men found little to do. When Jackie and the kids were on the practice slope, two of them stood guard, calling out "No pictures" to anything in a parka that came too close. One night two agents accompanied Bobby, Jackie and the Smiths on a brief visit to two Aspen taverns. On another evening, the clan joined the McNamaras at the Golden Horn. On both occasions, the jukeboxes raised the only uproar. "Who's got time for the Kennedys?" demanded one Aspenite. "I've got invitations to six cocktail parties tonight...
...schoolmates who loathe each other. One is a Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that to devour the dead, scavenged prey, it would often chew...