Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were preparing to cut U.S. losses in Viet Nam and settle for less than Lyndon Johnson was willing to concede, she argued, Lodge would be the ideal broker. His past credentials as an unbending anti-Communist would help convince American opinion that the U.S. was making the best possible deal...
...week's end McCarthy lent credence to that assessment by choosing an assignment to the Government Op erations Committee. A relatively lowly panel, Operations nevertheless has achieved a great deal of publicity under such diverse chairmen as the late Joseph McCarthy and the present John McClellan. Why Government Operations for Eugene McCarthy? As cryptic as ever, he rejoined: "If the medium is the message, as McLuhan says, then, extending it to Congress, the operation is the policy...
Thus the man who sought to govern by consensus could not even hold together his own party. The politician who attempted-with much success-to complete the unfinished business of the New Deal ended by presiding over a nation beset by class and racial tension. The President elected in 1964 by the largest popular majority in history had to admit that the interests of peace and national unity would best be served by his renunciation of power...
...loopholes for negotiation, the Russian initiative aroused interest-and conflicting evaluations-among officials of the outgoing Johnson Administration. They are drafting a reply to the Soviet note for Lyndon Johnson, asking for clarification and suggesting further exchanges. So far, the U.S. envisages any big-power agreement not as a deal to be "imposed" but merely as a set of proposals that U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring could present to Arabs and Israelis. He resumes his go-between role this month after five weeks at his regular post as Sweden's ambassador to Moscow. In any case, even a decision...
...some central authority within the University that is fully equipped to respond to demands, anticipate problems, formulate policies, and co-ordinate University efforts with respect to matters that implicate the community. There is, in our opinion, no change more fundamental than improving the organizational capacity of the University to deal with its environment...