Word: johnson
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...sound manager, Carter plans to restore the powers of the Cabinet Secretaries, so badly eroded by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In addition to regular Cabinet meetings, Carter intends to have smaller groups of Secretaries confer on issues that cut across departmental lines, such as urban development. "I'll use the Cabinet very aggressively," he says. "I don't intend to run the departments from the White House. I'm going to have a relatively small staff, and I'll trust my Cabinet members to manage their own departments." Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, explains that Carter's organization chart...
...Howard Toft according to the energy they put into the job (passive or active) and their feelings about their presidential experience (negative or positive). Based on that, according to Barber, they fit into one of four categories: passive-negative (Coolidge, Eisenhower); passive-positive (Harding, Taft); active-negative (Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon); and active-positive (F.D.R., Truman, Kennedy, Ford). TIME asked Barber, who has closely and critically studied Jimmy Carter for three years, to analyze the character of the President-elect. His report...
While it is not yet clear what economic actions he will take. Carter has begun surrounding himself with people who are expected to follow moderately stimulative fiscal policies. Last week he named Michael Blumenthal, chief executive of Bendix Corp., to be Treasury Secretary, and Charles Schultze, once Lyndon Johnson's budget boss, to head the Council of Economic Advisers (see THE NATION...
Perhaps. But though he is preoccupied with fashion. Wolfe is remarkably unfashionable. His book is crammed with opinions that could get him banned from liberal cocktail parties for life. For example, he notes that the restrictions imposed by the Johnson Administration on the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong forced Navy pilots to take unreasonable and pointless risks−and needlessly killed hundreds of them. At the height of the Viet Nam protests, amid cries that fascism was at hand. Americans "had, and exercised, the most extraordinary political freedom and civil rights in all history." The sexual revolution ,means that people...
...York Times reported the secret bombing of Cambodia. That same day the FBI started a series of wiretaps that ultimately monitored the telephones of 13 Government officials and four newsmen for various periods of time until February 1971. Halperin, an antiwar holdover from the Johnson Administration, was one of those under suspicion. Within nine months, in fact, he decided to quit. But not until the Watergate disclosures came gushing forth in 1973 did he learn that for 21 months the FBI had eavesdropped on him, his wife and three young sons for "national security" reasons. He demanded $3 million...