Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deadlock was plainly beginning to irritate Lyndon Johnson, who is coming under increasing pressure to resume all-out bombing. After Deputy U.S. Negotiator Cyrus R. Vance flew back from Paris to brief the President on the talks, Johnson jabbed at Hanoi. "It is time," he told an impromptu White House news conference, "to move from fantasy and propaganda to the realistic and constructive work of bringing peace to Southeast Asia." So far, he declared, the North's only response to his bombing curtailment has been to pour in men and supplies "at an unpreccdented rate." Nonetheless, two clays later...
Richard Nixon's celebrity roster is also brief-but heterogeneously charming. Its stars include Ray Bolger, John Wayne, Bart Starr, Ginger Rogers, Joe Louis and Rudy Vallee, who adjudges Nixon "the most qualified man in this country, intellectually and emotionally." Oddly, none of Ronald Reagan's former Hollywood colleagues have yet agreed in public that the Governor should move from Sacramento to Washington. To date, the only Beautiful Person who has declared for Nelson Rockefeller is Happy...
...reception from tribal magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...
...first million-selling single, was recorded a few weeks before his death in a plane crash last December. One of his catchiest and most reflective songs, it has none of the torrential outbursts and piston rhythms with which he electrified his audiences from Paris to Monterey during his brief reign as the crown prince of soul. But the album has other cuts of more typical pounding blues (I'm Coming Home and Don't Mess with Cupid), as well as some lighthearted badinage with Carla Thomas (Tramp...
Charging into New York, he thrust aside resident Democratic aspirants to take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture...