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But the record, both domestic and foreign, is curiously unsatisfying and even misleading, despite the piles of bills and billions for good causes. Indeed, Johnson enjoyed two periods of Congressional bliss within 14 months-immediately after John Kennedy's assassination and then after L.B.J.'s 1964 victory over...
THE concept of a volunteer armed force for the U.S. is one of the few national propositions that have scarcely a single enemy. President-elect Richard Nixon is strongly for it. The Department of Defense holds that "reliance upon volunteers is clearly in the interest of the armed forces." Such...
After the 1964 Goldwater debacle, Laird recognized the need for change within the Republican Party. He decided -and the party agreed-that the Federal Government should be active in such fields as education and welfare, but only as backstop to states and local communities. A leading backer of the Viet...
Despite his expert knowledge of the Pentagon, Laird is a frightening prospect. In 1962 he wrote a book about "the strategy gap" which tried to establish a philosophical basis for nuclear superiority. Two years later he wrote Goldwater's platform. More scathingly than most Congressmen, he condemned Robert McNamara for...
As it happens, so are many economists and Government officials, together with surprising numbers of business and political leaders. Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater's conservative economist in 1964, has long called for what he terms the negative income tax. Yale's James Tobin, a leading liberal economist, has...