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Otherwise, only minor administrative burdens are expected, according to Glimp. Each application folder of about 15 pages will still receive three readings and thorough discussion by members of the Committee. The only change in application requirements has been to require two teachers' recommendations from every candidate, instead of only the scholarship candidates...
Lyndon repaid Jenkins' devotion with expressions of the highest regard. Talking with reporters one night not long ago, the President buzzed for Jenkins, said warmly as Walter trotted in with a worn folder full of political polls: "He's always here. He's the best man I've got." With his rather heavy humor, the President called Jenkins "the Pope," in reference to Jenkins' Catholicism. Once, standing beside the swimming pool at the L.B.J. ranch, the President confided: "I had this pool put in just for the Pope's kids...
...alliteration ("Korea, Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody (a Norwegian travel folder promises "a Fjord in Your Future"), and punning ("Every litter bit helps"). By using what semanticists call "affective" language, many slogans deliberately exploit chauvinism ("Made in Texas by Texans"), xenophobia ("Yankee go home"), insecurity ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), narcissism ("Next to myself I like B.V.D. best...
When Kennedy was assassinated, no one from the Dallas-Fort Worth area was on the Secret Service's "serious risk" list. The FBI had a bulky folder on Oswald, but it did not bother to tip off the Secret Service. Says the Commission: "The FBI had no official responsibility, under the Secret Service criteria existing at the time of the President's trip, to refer to the Secret Service the information it had about Oswald. The Commission has concluded, however, that the FBI took an unduly restrictive view of its role in preventive intelligence work prior to the assassination." Adds...
Those visions are all nourished out of a brown folder and a stack of papers that are always at Lyndon's elbow. The contents: polls, polls and more polls...