Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wholeheartedly agree with those who demand an immediate, 100% withdrawal of our troops from Viet Nam. The war has been lost. Lyndon Johnson's capitulation in March 1968 merely served to punctuate the defeat. From that day forward, the future of the people of South Viet Nam was no longer at issue...
...within three years "on a basis that will promote peace in the Pacific." That deadline happens to coincide with the presidential election. He had already scheduled an address to the nation on Viet Nam for Nov. 3, just a year and two days after Lyndon Johnson ended all U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. In it, he is likely to propose new action. If the present battlefield lull continues, Nixon may announce a suspension of the daily B-52 raids, already reduced. He will probably go ahead with a third stage of troop withdrawals, perhaps raising the total cutback...
Says Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Johnson Administration adviser on Communist affairs: "What Nixon really needs to do is to convince the public that he actually has a policy." The President's pledge to end the war within three years coincides with Ted Kennedy's own timetable. So if Nixon moves faster?by increasing troop withdrawals, for instance, and putting forward a firmer schedule ?he may well get renewed backing from the large moderate center of M-day supporters. Most of them did not criticize his peace efforts with much vehemence until August, when he delayed the second stage...
...willingness to switch from easy-to tight-money policies and back again as he thought the situation required. He cooperated with the expansionist policies of President Kennedy when the nation's economic problem was sluggish growth and persistent unemployment. In late 1965, however, he refused to accept Lyndon Johnson's line that the U.S. could escalate the Viet Nam war, keep taxes and interest rates down and still avoid inflation; the Federal Reserve tightened credit, to L.B.J.'s displeasure...
Burns will hardly have the trouble with Nixon that Martin had with Johnson. Burns is Nixon's favorite economist, and the saying in Washington is that "when Arthur talks, Nixon listens." The President has said that his choice of Paul McCracken to head the Council of Economic Advisers was made on the advice of "my good friend," Arthur Burns. It was Burns who also recommended Herbert Stein as a member of the three-man council and George Schultz to become Labor Secretary. His closeness to Nixon raises a somewhat ironic problem. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent...