Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon announced last week that Secret Service protection of the President will be beefed up-which was what the Warren Commission recommended two months ago. Seventy-five new agents will be put to work by June, if Congress approves an extra $650,000 appropriation. This, said Dillon, is just the first step in a $3,000,000 plan that within 20 months would add 205 new agents, plus modern electronic data processing and more scientific detection equipment...
...Said Dillon: "The basic emphasis will be on more effective advance and preventive work by the Service in connection with presidential travel...
City. Lyndon's gifts for Lady Bird: a pair of diamond-and-gold earrings, a quiet vacation trip to any place she chooses, and as a gag, a framed picture of Gunsmoke's Matt Dillon, inscribed, "To Lady Bird and my Saturday night competition...
...Influence. Heller's will be a tough act to follow. He was certainly the most influential chairman in CEA history, and probably had the presidential ear as exclusively as any other single economist in U.S. history. It was Heller who, over the initial objections of Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, successfully argued President Kennedy into backing a tax cut. And it was Heller who in effect changed the nation's economic course by winning first Kennedy, then Johnson, over to the philosophy of deficit spending as a stimulant for a sluggish economy...
...this year. I don't know the address of the office, but its on Brattle Street back of the Brattle Theater, and your check will find it--and help pay for part of the services the AFSC has traditionally offered to Harvard and Radcliffe students. Laurence Wylie C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France