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...ethically improper about them. And although some Nixon aides may feel that there is an organized effort to make Nixon a prisoner of established policies, there is no evidence of a grand plot to this end. Some Johnson men, in fact, want to give their successors a bit of elbow room. The Budget Bureau, for example, has advised operating departments to leave to the new Administration any "moves, purchases and other actions that can be delayed...
...groups of the poor sought in city after city to elbow aside mayors and established agencies and take over the programs, Johnson came to fear that he had created a political monster. At one point, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley became "mightily upset" because the federal poverty project was becoming a "champion grabber and distributor of antipoverty funds." Daley relished that role for himself, and he let Washington know that he did not like the competition. According to Moynihan, Johnson told OEO "to keep community action programs as quiet as possible...
...every station, sixty people from your overcrowded car elbow their way off, and another seventy push in from the station to get on. Towards the end of the trip, as your back begins to stick to the disintegrating leather of the old upright seats, the sunrise lights up the outskirts of the miserable border town of Nuevo Laredo, sweltering colorlessly in the semi-desert of Northern Mexico...
...labor. Or conversely, it should have had the guts to deal with labor, admitting that it lacked either the power or the resolve to curb French business, and refuse to peddle an illusion. Selling the illusion of an increase in income to French labor may have bought DeGaulle political elbow room, but it did so at a ridiculously high price to the French economy, particularly to French workers...
...implication remained that Nixon had become a kind of coPresident, and Johnson decided to weigh in with some explanations of his own the next day. With Murphy at his elbow, Johnson told reporters that "of course, the decisions that will be made between now and January 20th will be made by this President and by this Secretary of State and by this Secretary of Defense." Despite the caveats from both sides, the objective sought by Johnson and Nixon-to let Washington speak "with one voice," as Nixon put it-remained reasonably clear. On the Viet Nam talks (see THE WORLD...