Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galvanic Effect. Despite the fact that L.B.J. was a write-in candidate while his challenger's name was printed on the ballot, the narrowness of the President's lead amounted in all but figures to a victory for McCarthy. "I think I can get the nomination," the Senator said later. "I'm ahead now. There's no point in being anything but optimistic." His showing had a galvanic effect, particularly on the legions of enthusiastic students who poured into New Hampshire to help him (see box opposite). Outside his once moribund New York offices appeared...
...anti-L.B.J. Many had demonstrated against the war at sit-ins or last October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that-were having no effect except as an emotional outlet," said Jon Barbieri, 23, a Connecticut-educated Peace Corpsman who came back from India and soon entered McCarthy's campaign. Said Dan Dodd, 23, a tall, tweedy Oregonian who dropped out of Union Theological Seminary to join Gene: "I was thinking of turning...
ROBERT Kennedy last week relayed to Lyndon Johnson a confidential set of terms whereby, if they were accepted by the President, the Senator would agree not to seek the Democratic nomination. Kennedy's message was, in effect, an ultimatum: If Johnson would publicly announce that he had decided to reevaluate the U.S. role in Viet Nam, Kennedy would stay out of the race...
Clifford carried the proposition to Johnson, who immediately objected that 1) it was the kind of political deal that no President could or should enter into; 2) it would say, in effect, that he had been wrong, and Hanoi would thus receive an immeasurable lift; 3) the President would be surrendering his responsibilities to a committee; 4) the names Kennedy proposed constituted a "stacked deck"; and 5) in any event, he had already heard the views of some of those on Kennedy's list...
Historically, Rusk was not obliged to make even that concession. U.S. Pres idents have frequently ignored congressional advice when it seemed necessary or convenient to do so. Lincoln ran the Civil War far more highhandedly than Lyndon Johnson has ever operated in Viet Nam, and Franklin Roosevelt in effect launched lend-lease, virtually committing the U.S. to active involvement in World War II, three years before asking Congress to vote...