Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Some of the Pentagon's uniformed chiefs, who felt that Schlesinger sometimes treated them with contempt, also opposed him. Hoping to avoid controversy, Carter turned to Brown, a physicist who had been one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's prize Whiz Kids and Lyndon Johnson's Air Force Secretary during the Viet Nam War. A skilled manager with a fuzzy ideological image (hawks consider him a bit dovish and vice versa), he seemed a safe compromise...
...some form of jawboning as well as wage and price guideposts to help control inflation. Whenever possible, however, he prefers to let the private sector work by itself, free of Government restraints. In fact, while Schultze remains every bit the zealous social reformer that he was as Lyndon Johnson's Budget Director, he has lately been preaching a free-market version of social activism. He has urged the Government to rely less on new laws and massive programs and more on subsidies, taxes and other incentives that might in duce private industry to solve problems like pollution and unemployment...
Poised and principled member of myriad commissions and civic groups . . . Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson as Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67, served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly . . . Chairman of Credentials Committee for 1972 Democratic National Convention; criticized by some at the time as being too much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris...
...least ten of the 46 senior fellows at the Brookings Institution are assisting Carter in the takeover and some will land jobs in his Administration. Those who have worked with Carter include Charles Schultze, Budget Director under Johnson, who may wind up in Carter's Cabinet; Henry Owen, onetime chief of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, who is a foreign affairs specialist for Carter; and Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, who may head up Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Then, too, there is Robert Roosa, chairman of the Brookings board...
After 34 years of perking up Washington as a White House reporter and later as press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, Auntie Mameish Liz Carpenter is heading home to Austin, Texas, "to think more, to write more and to raise a little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing...