Word: johnson
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Some observers see an inherent stubbornness in the Carter personality; hence Jimmy's almost defiant defense of an embattled aide. Others suggest a further element: simple geography, as with Jack Kennedy's Massachusetts (and Harvard) Mafia and Lyndon Johnson's Texas herd. Some black leaders note that Carter is more at ease with Southern blacks -as in the case of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young-than with any Northerners, black or white...
University of Chicago Agricultural Economist D. Gale Johnson is concerned that at $3 a bu., the target price for wheat will be "an incentive to expand production. The cost of the program will get so high that it will have to be modified." Others argue that the 20% set aside for wheat will accomplish little, since farmers will withdraw their less productive land and concentrate on planting high-yield acreage. In fact, some Agriculture Department officials project that even a full 20% set-aside program will cut production by no more than 8%. There is also some question...
What Others Did As Lasky notes, Franklin Roosevelt did use the FBI to harass prominent people who publicly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...massive abuse of civil rights. Roosevelt also maneuvered secretly to engage the U.S. in the fight against Nazi Germany before the U.S. formally declared war. The way the U.S. became so deeply enmeshed in Viet Nam involved serious deception of the American people by their Government, most notably under Johnson. Ironically, much of the deception that Lasky deplores was detailed in the Pentagon papers; yet Lasky considers publication of the documents such a serious breach of security that, in his view, Nixon had every right to unleash his plumbers against Daniel Ellsberg. Typically, Lasky dwells at length on the well...
AILING. Frank M. Johnson Jr., 58, director designate of the FBI. The day after President Carter nominated him, the Alabama federal district judge was discovered to have an aneurysm, or abnormal swelling, of his abdominal aorta. After a 70-minute operation performed by Houston'. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, in which the weakened portion of the aorta was replaced by a Dacron graft, Johnson was reported to be in "excellent" condition. He is expected to recover completely in six weeks. If his return to health is delayed Johnson said he would ask Carter to "secure someone else for the directorship...