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...accessible than Nixon; he deliberately organized his staff to circumvent the massive federal bureaucracy. By contrast, Nixon has concentrated on trying to make the Government responsible to his aims?not always successfully. Lyndon Johnson was far more outgoing than Nixon?he saw or telephoned hundreds of people nearly every day???but he did almost all of the talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How Nixon's White House Works | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

WASTES. Each of California's 18.5 million residents throws away 20 lbs. of solid wastes per day???an amount that in a year would make a wall 100 ft. wide by 30 ft. high stretching from Oregon to Mexico. Most of the garbage is buried in landfills, but space is running out, and there is no state or regional authority to coordinate solutions. San Francisco now plans to pay the town of Mountain View $2 per ton to accept 2,000 tons of solid wastes a day. The arrangement stops when Mountain View's marshes are filled, in about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...only beginning to understand that lesson. The most divisive issues of the day???the baffling war in Viet Nam, the Negro's bitter contest for his rights?take much of their heat from the national refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DIFFICULT ART OF LOSING | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...Scranton, one of the Republicans whom Dan Evans admires most deeply, dropped him a note last week. "I bet him a buck that when he made his keynote speech there wouldn't be any big hoopla," recalled the Pennsylvanian. "I bet him that it would take the delegates a day???24 hours?to realize that he had much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KEYNOTE TO OPPORTUNITY | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...entirely. In Boston, Harvard, M.I.T., and Boston University students marched across the Charles River, and one shouted: "It's V-J day???victory over Johnson!" Outside the White House, a group of youths unfurled a banner reading THANKS, L.B.J. In Kansas City, a photographer wrote: "Congratulations. It was the best thing you could possibly have given up for Lent." Of a record 20,000 letters and telegrams that poured into the White House, however, all but a few congratulated the President for a magnanimous action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE RENUNCIATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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