Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson can certainly be expected to consult with these old associates-although not necessarily to appoint any of them to high office. Who are the men Lyndon may reasonably be expected to bring into his official family, at whatever level...
...trends," is really the pseudonym of a Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous fiction...
...important for politicians to consult intellectuals, Kennedy said, "to prevent us from becoming imprisoned by our own slogans" and "to bathe us in the cooling waters of the scholastic pool." But politics cannot easily be aligned with the intellectual goals of "the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth," Kennedy argued, "Our political parties, our politicians are interested, of necessity, in winning popular support--a majority; and Harvard--less important than the needs of gaining and maintaining power...
...thrown out of his church for moral turpitude. Taylor, who has no part in the film, is playing it safe. Although she is still married to Eddie Fisher, she is already well along into the waiting-up-nervously phase with Burton. If she gets too nervous, she can always consult one of Burton's friendly agents, Michael Wilding, who in his acting days was her second husband...
With Washington's attention focused on Khrushchev's moves in the Caribbean, Galbraith was left to handle the border war on his own. "I was thoroughly swamped with decisions and there probably wouldn't have been time to consult Washington on many problems anyway...