Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert C. Johnson Winchester, Mass...
...grinch who stole Castro is Bill Moyers, the former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson who a year ago left public television to become chief correspondent for CBS Reports. He did not set out to make Castro break his promise, but when Moyers was in Cuba last January filming a documentary, Castro showed up and wanted to talk-for 15½ hours, it turned out. Not to worry, Barbara. Says Moyers: "Even if Castro had come out and told me that he personally handed the rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald, our interviews wouldn't be competitive...
...measure. Republican Alan Greenspan, chairman of Ford's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that Burns "has done an extraordinarily effective job, especially in the economic and political environment of the last several years." On the other hand, Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun, a liberal Democrat who was Lyndon Johnson's chief economist, assesses Burns' performance harshly: "There is no way to exonerate monetary policy from the disastrous economic performance of the last six years." It is a measure of the Chairman's skill as a Washington power and survivor that so few seem to be neutral...
...packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water streamed over his head and down over his red fishnet shirt with its Boston Marathon patch...
Walter W. Rostow left MIT in the 1960s to work for former President Johnson as chairman of the Policy Planning Council during the Vietnam war and was not invited back to MIT in part because of his involvement with...