Word: johnson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, known as a driver when he was Lyndon Johnson's domestic-policy chief, began shaking things up in his new post almost immediately-if in small ways. He decided that signatures on staff memos should appear on the bottom instead of the top; he dismissed as inadequate the daily four-page "green sheet" news summary prepared for the HEW Secretary and ordered up expanded editions of as many as 20 pages. He also dismissed one-third of his own staff, figuring he could get along with about 100 people...
...Stuart Eizenstat, 34, assistant for domestic affairs. He worked as a speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson, which makes him the only Carter aide with previous experience in the White House. He was Carter's issues director during the campaign...
...Picture Association and the closest thing Washington has to a movie mogul, says that so far 'I'd give him an A.' Valenti believes he knows a good star when he sees one, having not only scanned Hollywood's best but also served in Lyndon Johnson's White House. 'Politics is mounted on symbols,' he says. 'Every successful political captain knows it, by God! A President signals to the people what he wants by symbolic acts...
Schools Dorothy Johnson: "We're being tested. If Amy should ever decide to change her mind, the school system will bear the brunt...
...Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. Sorensen used some of the material for his book Kennedy, then donated all of it to the Kennedy Library. He claimed a $231,000 tax deduction, part of which was rejected by the IRS. These actions were not exceptional. When Lyndon Johnson left the White House, he carted away mounds of documents, some of which wound up in his memoirs The Vantage Point. "It's a bum rap," said Mondale...