Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed uninterested. "All things being equal," he said, "it would be better for a citizen of New York to run." In fact, Bobby had set his sights on the vice-presidency. But he was kidding himself. For one thing, he and Lyndon have always been able to restrain their enthusiasm for one another, and anyhow, Johnson, who understandably wants to be known for his own achievements, had pointedly advised longtime Kennedy Aide Kenny O'Donnell only one month after Dallas: "I'll never have a Kennedy on the ticket...
...alertness and enthusiasm, he dwarfs those around him, frequently snapping at his ragged staff to "be more on the ball." His frustration is justified, for he is surrounded by men of little stature and small ambition. This week's factory tours were repeatedly stalled by the forgetfulness of his aides. Outside each plant an absurd litany would ripple through the staff: "Where's the car?...Have you got his coat and hat?...Where in God's name...
...their chief argument is that Culligan's interest in editorial salvage work has waned, particularly since the discovery of a rich copper-ore body in Ontario, adjacent to a Curtis holding of timberland. Since then, Culligan has filled the role of prospector with enthusiasm. Texas Gulf Sulphur, which made the discovery, has promised Curtis a mere 10% of the net profit in mining Curtis' acres-if and when they are ever mined. Buoyed in part by the blue-sky possibilities in Ontario, Curtis stock rose to a high of 191, has since settled in the vicinity...
Even when Johnson condescends to an indirect retort, his strictures against "the voices of extremism" raise no enthusiasm. The lack of response does not stem from disagreement with Johnson, but rather from the fact that most Americans are so overwhelmingly behind him that his philosophical differences with Goldwater seem little more than irrelevant abstractions...
...could take the grind. Professors expected a freak with a photographic memory, discovered instead a welladjusted, serious child who thought logically, had a zest for ideas, and made subtle, discriminating judgments. At home, he was well behaved, with a normal ten-year-old's enthusiasm for baseball, marbles, stamp collecting. "Mike," his mother once shouted, "put away your blocks and study your humanities...