Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantage [of a manned bomber] is that it complicates the other side's problems. The question is how much can you afford to pay for that as compared to the other ways you could spend the funds." Brown had served as Air Force Secretary in the Johnson Administration and believed thoroughly in the manned bomber as an essential element of the American strategic triad (the other two: land-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles and sea-launched missiles). Even earlier, as the 33-year-old chief of research for the Pentagon during the Kennedy Administration, Brown had helped to kill...
...sprayed. quit now and take a cab, he asked himself, or press on? Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded at rush hour. Too slow for a biker. Buses fuming. Too much pollution. But then Jones began to listen to the sounds of people going to work...
...were disposed to concentrate on them. Everyone knows that the U.S. cannot go on consuming 30% of the world's energy resources. Racism remains one of the most insistent and complicated American problems. Poverty continues to infect American lives, though not quite as painfully as it did when the Johnson White House mobilized a war against it. But the poor have no publicity now. Still, Chicago has already had an ugly riot this year?an explosion in the Puerto Rican neighborhood around Humboldt Park. Detroit still has two rats for every human resident. Even so, the "long hot summers...
After all, Johnson failed. Nixon failed. The age-old protective armor has gotten thicker...
...Howard Johnson, Red Barn...