Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe Mr. Carter is less mysterious than he is made out to be. The Johnson-Nixon experience so shriveled our confidence in presidential simplicity that we have become a nation of uneasy skeptics, sure only that Presidents are seldom what they seem and attuned to hear in every little psychological discord the dirge of neurosis. Gerald Ford should have taught us better: that a President can be wrong in important ways without in the least being sick. Jimmy Carter may turn out wrong-is bound to in some ways-but I for one will be surprised if his major troubles...
...please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter comes as welcome as water...
...California Institute of Technology, who headed weapons research at the Pentagon in the McNamara years. In his final session, after a quick trip to Chicago for the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley, Carter named three more old hands. To run Health, Education and Welfare, Carter recruited Joseph Califano, Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy chief. To head the energy agency that he hopes to expand into a Cabinet department, Carter chose his house Republican, James Schlesinger, whose resume is getting to be as lengthy as Elliot Richardson's. One baffling choice: he picked New York Attorney Theodore Sorensen...
Night Reading. The Brooklyn-born grandson of an immigrant Italian fruit vendor, Califano, 45, should feel at home. Once described as the "deputy President of the Great Society," he helped launch many of the programs he will soon be trying to run. As a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, he wrote so many memos for L.B.J.'s "night reading" that the President once testily asked another aide whether "y'all brought 'em up here by pack mule...
...application to the then general counsel for the Department of Defense, Cyrus Vance, in 1961 and was hired four days after being interviewed. Three years later he emerged as special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and a year after that held the same post under Johnson as assistant in charge of domestic programs...