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With so many problems flowing together, the nation was battered by a flood tide of frustration and anxiety. A doubt that in the past had rarely been articulated or even felt crept into the American consciousness: Is the U.S., after all, as fallible in its aims and unsure of its answers as any other great power? Can-and should-the Viet Nam war be won? Can the nation simultaneously allay poverty, widen opportunity, eradicate racism, make its cities habitable and its laws uniformly just? Or will it have to jettison urgent social objectives at home for stern and insistent commitments...
...this country." Now, he told Wilson, he had concluded that Britain would have to devalue, that "there's a point at which determination becomes obstinacy"-and that he had now passed that point. Exports were hardly rising, he told his boss, and yet enough wage increases had crept past the barrier of the Labor Party's price and income squeeze so that rising demand kept imports growing at an alarming rate...
Harvard enrollment figures have also crept up, largely as a result of the draft, she noted...
...operation, limping along with its staff at two-thirds strength, provided dwellings for only 4,347 of 28,000 newly created refugee families last year. The U.S. budget for refugees has crept up to $35.6 million in fiscal 1968, an annual figure that is about half the daily U.S. expenditure on the war. Noting that the medical budget dropped from $37 million to $34 million this year, Kennedy said: "It's shocking to me, this complete lack of any kind of priority for the human problems...
Simple, o'erbubbling girlish exuberance led Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, to her mama's bedroom door at three o'clock that August morning. When Mama wasn't there, she crept into her daddy's bedroom. "Who is it?" asked Lady Bird, waking up with a start, and in a moment the President woke up too. Then, as they guessed what Lynda Bird was driving at, the Johnsons hauled their eldest daughter into bed with them and listened to her tell the news of her decision to marry Chuck Robb. Now the story has been broken...