Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Virginia to teach. By the time President Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's chief tax collector, Caplin was earning $15.000 a year as a professor and about $12.000 more as a consulting lawyer; taking his $20,3000-a-year post on the New Frontier meant a loss in income...
...intricate rules of New Frontier social life, having dinner at the White House is only a step toward being really In; the next step up is to have dinner at the White House and not mention it to anybody...
Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs had a complaint about the New Frontier, and he aired it to the whole country in a TV interview. Every time he had been invited to the White House for breakfast, he said, all they ever served was "tasteless" Yankee-style waffles and scrambled eggs-never any real Louisiana cooking. Why, they didn't even put any chicory in the coffee or supply Tabasco sauce for the eggs...
Measured by the company he keeps and the gatherings he attends, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson seems to be a busy and important man on the New Frontier. Last week he attended the President's weekly legislative breakfast and his press conference briefing, sat in on private presidential chats with congressional leaders, went to a foreign aid briefing, and drank toasts at a White House dinner in honor of Chief Justice Warren, House Speaker McCormack and the Vice President. In his two years as Vice President, he has traveled to Southeast Asia and Europe as a representative...
...impasse that appeared at the very first meeting in December. Pakistan repeated its demand for a plebiscite, which would surely bring Kashmir under its control; India insisted that the present cease-fire line, which gives India two-thirds of the province, become, with only minor adjustments, the permanent legal frontier between the two countries. Though neither side would budge, neither wanted to take the blame for breaking off the talks for good. So delegates wearily resigned themselves to a third round of discussions next month in Karachi...