Word: johnson
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Inheriting a dangerously overheated economy, Nixon has moved forcefully to curb inflation. His economists have tightened the fiscal and monetary screws and, unlike Johnson, Nixon appears ready to maintain that firm grip even at the cost of greater unemployment. But some of his subordinates have been painfully inept, notably Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, who last week suggested for the second time since taking office that it might be necessary to impose wage and price controls if the surtax were not extended (see BUSINESS). He did this even though the President is firmly and publicly opposed to such a step. Nixon...
Nixon appears to be trying for a consensus. I think you only obtain a consensus by accident; you can never create it. When it exists for you, you take great advantage of it, as Johnson did for a period of time. But when you're riding a number of horses, you only look good until they split up to go around a tree. L.B.J. came to his tree in Viet...
...opposition from the teachers themselves, many of whom are frankly terrified at the prospect of working in violence-plagued ghetto schools. Redmond's policy collapsed when Mayor Richard Daley-who in 1965 thawed the HEW-imposed freeze on federal funds to Chicago schools with a call to Lyndon Johnson-threw his support behind the teachers' union...
Well Connected. Indeed, Evers brought overnight fame to the area. Messages of congratulation came from President Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, Eugene McCarthy and many other national figures. Though he could not be there himself, New York Governor Rockefeller provided a jet to carry Evers' admirers southward. Former Attorney Genera.' Ramsey Clark came. So did Civil Rights Leaders Whitney Young and Juliar, Bond, and a delegation of film and TV stars. Leontyne Price was on hand to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Johnson State Park along the Pedernales in Texas boasts an impressive heed of 40 white-tailed deer, plus quite a few rabbits, ground squirrels and other rodents. But it has been woefully short in the buffalo department, with only one bull and four cows. That situation has just been corrected by Budweiser Beer Baron August Busch, a longtime friend of L.B.J., who sent the ex-President four of the shaggy ungulates-two bulls and two cows-from his private preserve at Grant's Farm outside St. Louis. Busch will hardly miss the beasts; he still has 37 of them...