Word: johnson
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...foreign policy. Clifford was a principal architect of the Point Four program, which provided economic aid to undeveloped countries, the Truman Doctrine, which helped keep Greece from falling to the Communists, and of the modern Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency. He also advised John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson on foreign policy, but refused to join the Cabinet until 1968, when he reluctantly became Secretary of Defense. In that job, he helped persuade Johnson to limit bombing raids on North Viet Nam and begin negotiating with Hanoi's representatives in Paris...
...Mafia, who calculated that all problems were rooted in politics and could be solved by a deal. A few of the staff members who came along with L.B.J. left the impression that if they were defied, the offender's tax records or FBI dossier would end up in Johnson's nighttime reading. We barely survived the season of California narrowness; around Nixon's White House, anyone who did not act, think, look and smell like a U.S.C. fraternity man was considered a candidate for the enemies list...
...Chula Vista corridor south of San Diego, illegal Mexican immigrants have been entering the U.S. in record numbers in search of jobs and relief from poverty at home. "They have some vague idea that if they get here, they might be able to stay," says Border Patrol Agent Tom Johnson in McAllen, Texas. "It doesn't take much of a rumor to get them started...
...Klux Klan claims to control at least one official state delegation-Mississippi's-and has threatened to disrupt the meeting. Summed up one delegate: "It's kind of a reverse '60s, with the regressive forces threatening to disrupt us." But Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird Johnson's former press secretary and now a top leader in the ERA drive, had a soothing prediction: "Houston is not going to be a bad scene. We are going to emerge realizing we want the same things...
...Lyndon Johnson would have agreed. When he invited Lowell to the White House in 1965, the poet wired a stern refusal, explaining that he regarded "our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust." Among old friends or in class at Harvard, where he taught for many years, he was a vivid, eloquent presence. He could hold forth for hours on any subject, his hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs...