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...because change is the essence of his experimentation. Yet at the heart of Rauschenberg's work is a clear conviction that a heightened order of truth can be found in everything and anywhere, even in the garbage dump. "Art," he says, in what must be one of its broadest definitions, "is what things become when you use them." His pictures provoke the thought, as an English critic put it, that if a viewer could "switch to Rauschenberg-vision, everything in the world would become a beautiful work of art. Even himself...
Johnson's attention to detail is such that not only did he decree the nomination of Hubert Humphrey as his running mate, but he picked the people to deliver Humphrey's nominating and seconding speeches in order to show the broadest party unity. Chosen to nominate Humphrey was Hubert's junior Senate colleague from Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy, who had been led to believe that he himself might be tapped for second place on the national ticket. McCarthy got the assignment from White House Aide Walter Jenkins. He acceded reluctantly, and his speech was barely perfunctory in praise...
...laws "on every foot of American soil." Prudence may curb this power in Mississippi, noted Kennedy's critics. But it is "disappointing and ironic that the Department of Justice, which has been bold beyond precedent in successfully urging the Supreme Court that the judiciary possesses the broadest powers to enforce the constitutional assurances of equality, should now discover nonexistent barriers to executive action...
...Goldwater's stand on some issues. In his telegram to Barry, he said, "I think you know that, though I cannot agree with many of the positions you have taken, I respect you as a man." And Scranton's views are such as might appeal to the broadest segment of the Republican spectrum. His own favorite thumbnail self-description: "I am a liberal on civil rights, a conservative on fiscal policies and an internationalist on foreign affairs...
...awards, worth $4000 each and considered among the richest available to historians, are given to the authors of "the best books in American history in its broadest sense, American diplomacy, and American international relations...