Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble organizing a party fund-raising dinner scheduled for June 23 in Los Angeles, with Johnson topping the bill and his campaign fund the principal beneficiary. The White House, apparently seeking consensus even in chaos, dispersed responsibility for selling the $1,000-a-couple tickets among 30 cochairmen, honorary chairmen and committeemen of all factions, many of whom are not on speaking terms...
...unlikely, of course, that both houses of Congress would veto the Presidentially sponsored FAIR system within the 60-day time limit set by the bill, even if the House version won out. But the threat of such a veto would give Congressmen--particularly a small minority of committee chairmen and party leaders--confusing and capricious influence over the White House...
...Capitol Hill: as Kipling noted, the man in uniform may be everyone's goat in peacetime, "But it's 'Savior of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot." Wheeler has never indulged in the public griping or corridor grumping of previous JCS chairmen. On the contrary, as the nation's top advocate for the military viewpoint, he has sufficient courage, diplomacy and professional skill both to cooperate effectively with McNamara and argue opposing convictions dispassionately but persuasively within the Administration and before Congress...
Planning for the next summer's sessions begins in September, when Crooks meets with all the Harvard department chairmen and outlines the school's basic needs. Course offerings and faculty are up to each department, and Crooks himself exerts little direct pressure. "The departments know what fields they ought to cover, and they don't want much help," he points out. The number of courses has increased from 151 to 191 in the last five years. Most of the growth has come in languages and in offerings from architectural science, Celtic, history of science, and the Carpenter Center, which last...
...wait? The moderates' dilemma was made no easier by the certain knowledge that even as they tarried, Richard Nixon was indefatigably lining up convention delegates. Rockefeller's stern analysis, in fact, was sharply underscored by a Gallup poll of nearly three-fifths of the G.O.P. county chairmen, showing that a large majority of the local pros, most of them conservative in temper, believe that Nixon will be the next Republican candidate...