Word: johnson
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...Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then futuristic political novel about urban pathology. After helping to cover the White House for the Tribune during the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, Barrett in 1965 joined TIME, where he worked in the Nation section and wrote 24 cover stories. Eventually, he served as a senior editor, then became chief of the magazine's New York bureau...
...returning to Washington, he was most struck by two changes since the Johnson era. The presidency has lost important leverage, he observes. And at least partly because of that, Jimmy Carter seems unable to keep a hold on the public's imagination. Says Barrett: "It's as if the electorate, which is still in an ambivalent and cranky mood, liked the down-home candidate Carter, but wants something quite different from President Carter...
...policy has changed considerably since 1965, when Lyndon Johnson sent 21,000 troops to prevent the island nation from becoming "another Cuba." At that time the U.S. feared a Communist takeover and thought a victory by the P.R.D. and its leader, Juan Bosch, might lead to that end. Vance, then Deputy Secretary of Defense, was one of several U.S. officials who suggested in vain that Antonio Guzmán be installed as interim President in an effort to bring an end to the civil war that was then raging. When elections were finally held in 1966, Balaguer defeated Bosch...
With the issues becoming tangled, Farber and the Times last week seemed to be losing friends even in the press. Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson wrote: "All those high-sounding statements about journalistic integrity and courageously protecting news sources in defense of the Constitution now appear compromised." Warned former Wall Street Journal Editor Vermont Royster: "Not the least of the risks we run in raising the banner of the First Amendment on every occasion is of appearing arrogant to the people...
...this before the cameras turn, when it is ever so much cheaper, is one of Hollywood's enduring mysteries), since many scenes have nothing much to do with one another. The most egregious error of this sort concerns a geratic triangle involving Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson and Fred MacMurray that has no relation to the insect world. Then, too, one wonders about Michael Caine, the entomologist leading the fight against the winged villains. His lines suggest that there is more to his involvement with the bees than scientific concern, but we never find out what on earth...