Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 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...
...Jack Valenti, the Man Friday most often seen whispering into Lyndon's ear, has professed that he would like to get back to Texas to make some money...
...against the wall. This was it. But to amuse themselves they deferred to tots -no more than seven or eight years old. 'What shall we do with them?' asked the adults. The children devised a different fate for each of us. 'Cut that one's ear off and make him eat it,' or, 'Cut his stomach open,' or, 'Put his eyes out.' Two rebels kept sharpening their spears all the time. The children yelled, 'Let's get started. Kill the first...
...stage and stares in shy bewilderment at the audience. Rivulets of sweat stream down his face. He hikes one stumpy leg onto a straight-back chair, lazily scratches his guitar and sings. The voice is honest, pleasant, but nothing special. Yet when Georges Brassens sings, all Paris cocks an ear...
...capitalize on a man's misfortune. We never mentioned it." Lyndon's comment sent reporters scrambling for phones, caused many an eyebrow to arch in puzzlement-including Dwight Eisenhower's. Leaving Walter Reed Hospital after treatment for a respiratory ailment that resulted in sinus and ear infections, Ike declared when newsmen questioned him about Johnson's statement: "I can't recall...