Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galbraith, economics is a vehicle for achieving broad social aims. More than anyone else, he injects social ideas into the bloodstream of economics. As prodder, pleader and proselytizer, he is unrivaled in the U.S. today. "Galbraith is an antenna and a synthesizer," says Samuelson. "He senses what is in the air and puts it together and packages...
...reason to support" and "a Republican prospect that is in every respect worse." Concluded Galbraith: "If the Democrats seem to be lacking in credibility, the Republicans produce a man you can really mistrust?Richard Nixon." At week's end the A.D.A. national board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse McCarthy's candidacy?with an amendment, introduced by Chairman Galbraith, recognizing that individual members are free to support other candidates. Whether this halfhearted compromise will prevent an irreparable split is questionable. One obvious apostate was former Chairman John Roche, President Johnson's house intellectual, who immediately said he would resign from...
...Judas Rat." The odd thing is that, except for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, Galbraith has few complaints about Lyndon Johnson. "He's put all the right things on the plate in his domestic program, and apart from Viet Nam, he's been imaginative and flexible in his foreign policy," he says. Until the war, the two men, both from poor, rural backgrounds, were good friends. "I like him more and more," Galbraith said of the then Vice Pres ident in 1961. "He is genuinely intelligent and wants to do things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith...
...Galbraith unabashedly enjoys being close to the center of power. As he explains it, with a twinkle in his eye: "My father thought that we were obliged because of our enormous size to alter the world to our specifications...
...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...