Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easy Transition. As much as any man in Washington, Bundy symbolized the crisp, bright style of John Kennedy's New Frontier. He was dedicated to his job, and in the first hours after Kennedy was assassinated, he thought first of the continuity of the Government. In the urgency of those moments after the late President's body was brought back to Washington, Lyndon Johnson asked Bundy to accompany him to the White House in a helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base...
Actually, Schlesinger was more part of the atmosphere than the substance of the New Frontier. His office, symbolically, was tucked away in a remote corner of the East Wing, near the social secretary and the correspondence section. His specific assignments were few and vague. Though memos cascaded from his typewriter-"beautiful memos, witty, masterfully written memos," said a colleague, "but often showing bad judgment"-they were frequently ignored. He was only on the periphery of power. But at that, he was closer than most historians have ever been...
...Sisterish Story. During the writing, he consulted often and intimately with Bobby Kennedy and Jackie. He is close to both, and if Bobby ever launches another Frontier, Schlesinger will undoubtedly be part of it. Jackie found him congenial from the first, because of his interest in and contacts with the intellectual and cultural community. Together and singly, they filled in gaps in his information, read his proofs, corrected errors, suggested changes. Almost undoubtedly it was Jackie who told Schlesinger about how her husband "put his head into his hands and almost sobbed," then took her in his arms after...
...millionaires are quite unlike anything the nation has ever seen. Compared with the gilded-age millionaires of a century ago, they are harder-working, less flamboyant and more anonymous. They have not made their fortunes in steel, oil, railroads and the other basic industries, but in the frontier technologies, the newest services and even the arts. They are an uncommonly talented lot: bright but not brilliant, pragmatic, somewhat egotistical, compulsively driven to achievement...
...Charlton Heston, playing a misspent 11th-century knight who falls heir to a small and dreary Norman fief on the coast of the North Sea. "There's a strangeness in this place," Heston remarks. And his servant Richard Boone nods sagely, like a man who knows a godforsaken frontier town when he sees one. Heston's castle is a tacky stronghold, one lone tower surrounded by sullen villagers and under constant threat of attack by swarms of large blond barbarians wearing identical wigs...