Word: counselloring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward, "is in tune with the reaction and quite accommodating to it." The White House greeted questions about the segregationist amendments with ambivalence. When Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott, for example, tried to head off the Stennis amendment with a more innocuous rider, Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow sent around a note saying, "Your amendment is Administration language." But, Harlow added, "other approaches would also accord with the President's basic objective-racial equality." The "other approach" was that of John Stennis...
Moveable Feast. Even with such a small group, the new rapport was important, for many of the nation's mayors have complained that the Administration has favored state governments over municipalities. Presidential Counsellor Daniel P. Moynihan gave the ten mayors the Administration's first cohesive statement of urban policies. The outline emphasized the need to adjust federal programs so that highway projects, for example, do not merely aggravate urban problems. City governments should be strengthened through consolidation with surrounding communities. Metropolitan areas, said the Administration, should equalize their services, so that, for example, inner-city schools will have...
...surplus. Real growth in the gross national product (GNP) had all but ceased in the final quarter of 1969. Continued doldrums (see BUSINESS) would mean lower tax yields. That concern brought Kennedy into agreement with Economist Arthur Burns, who, on Feb. 1, will leave his post as Counsellor to the President to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Burns had been arguing for tighter restrictions on Government spending on the grounds that the Reserve Board's limitations on the money supply, severe though they have been, could not alone cope with inflation...
...head of the council, he also made a lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor to the President, he suggested that the tax increases and spending cuts then contemplated would not be enough to contain inflation. Once ensconced in the White House, he optimistically judged in April that it would be reasonable to expect the Administration to bring the rate of inflation down...
Their mutual respect has grown ever since, and now Nixon has given Burns, 64, a job without peer or precedent on the White House staff. As "Counsellor to the President," he will be the only Nixon staffer with Cabinet rank, assuming broad responsibility for shaping the President's legislative program. Burns' mandate reaches into every cranny of domestic policy. He describes the job as an American equivalent of the European minister without portfolio: that is, a top-ranking government official liberated from the bureaucratic burdens of a specific departmental command...