Word: johnsonians
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...team effort. Through the week, Cabinet officers and presidential aides slipped into the White House through a side door to deliver the latest budgetary figures and policy recommendations. Moyers, working at his small electric Smith-Corona, in machine-gun bursts of 100 words per minute, translated the reports into Johnsonian prose, sending off completed portions to wherever the President happened to be at the moment. Johnson worked endlessly on the crisp, newly typed pages with his favorite soft-lead pencils...
...campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...
...typical keep-'em-guessing Johnsonian performance. Boyd, who was given no hint of his elevation, had been offered a $100,000-a-year job as head of the Association of American Railroads. Until Johnson pulled out Boyd's name, the front runner in the press guess-stakes had been White House Adviser Joseph A. Califano Jr., who with Boyd helped push the bill through Congress...
Despite such conspicuous harbingers, the President once again yielded to the mysterious Johnsonian compulsion to deny a matter of wide public knowledge...
While the Johnsonian consensus shows signs of nationwide strain, nowhere is the return to partisan normalcy more noisily evident than in the Rockies. In the leading electoral contests in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, Republican candidates are keying their campaigns to a shared sense of resurgent conservatism. Democrats, for their part, are going somewhat less than all the way with L.B.J. The three races, all pretty much neck and neck, are made all the more uncertain by the frontier-style independence-economic as well as political-that still characterizes Rocky Mountain voting patterns...