Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even though white CORE Volunteers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman had given their lives in Mississippi only a year earlier. To the new radical leaders, Farmer's type of militancy was not aggressive enough for the times. Another disappointment came in 1966, when Farmer was asked by the Johnson Administration to head a literacy program funded by a $900,000 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity. The project was killed, reportedly because big-city politicians suspected that it would in effect become a black voter-registration drive and would cut into their white middle-class bastions...
...SURCHARGE. The chairman sees no escape from continuing the levy. If Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon had not agreed in January to extend the 10% income tax surcharge beyond June 30, said Mills, "President Nixon would have had, within 30 days of taking office, a very intolerable situation. We possibly could have been back even further than we were in the fall of 1967, when people began to doubt our dollar, when people began to wonder whether or not we were being good stewards of our trust. Had its extension not been recommended, in my opinion, you would have...
...purchase by his brother Munir of the $25 murder weapon. Fitts also noted that the day before the shooting, Sirhan went to the San Gabriel Valley Gun Range for target practice. While on the range, one Mike Soccoman asked Sirhan what he intended to do with the small Iver Johnson .22-cal. pistol. Sirhan said he could use it for hunting, adding: "It could kill a dog." Ballistics evidence revealed that the fatal shot was fired into Kennedy's head from a distance of approximately one inch. Later, one of the prosecutors, Lynn Compton, said that Sirhan had "stalked...
...this is much in line with what the Nixon Administration and the preceding Johnson Administration have intended. As McCracken said in Paris last week: "In general, we are now on the right course in economic policy. The budget is back under control. Money and credit policy is tracking about right. But we have had three years of excessive demand, and it naturally takes time to regain your balance...
...wages and prices. Paul A. Samuelson of M.I.T., a liberal economist, says that controls should be "saved for emergencies"; most officials shudder at their use under any. circumstances. In a letter to the Washington Post last week, Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith argued for revival of the Johnson Administration's voluntary wage-price guideposts, "or something similar." Yet, as Johnson learned, such guideposts can be flouted so often that they become meaningless...