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Tight Budget. Compared with the vast Johnsonian programs of the past, it was pretty tame stuff. At that, even such proposals as model cities and housing are unlikely to get the funds the President wants. He described his budget as a "tight" one, though it calls for an increase in outlays from $175.6 billion to $186 billion.* Most of the $10.4 billion increase will, in fact, go for defense costs and mandatory increases in such programs as social security, aid to farmers and veterans, Medicare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Somber & Spare | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...ranking advisers in the Administration and the party, his strategy will encompass five major factors. They are to: 1) freshen the face and sharpen the thrust of Great Society proposals; 2) employ Administration officials, with the exception of the Secretaries of State and Defense, as traveling evangelists for the Johnsonian word in the next few months; 3) stress, in the post-convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis on voter-registration drives; and 5) delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Five Ways for LBJ. | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...major parties, with a pro-rata share for minor parties that received more than 5,000,000 votes in the previous election (none has ever done so). Last spring the Senate repealed the Long scheme, largely because dissident Democrats feared the effects of handing $30 million to the Johnsonian National Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: NOW IS THE FOR ALL GOOD MEN . . . | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Nugent in 2000. At Killeen, he felt most at home sentimentally: "My grandfather drove his longhorns across this prairie on the way to Abilene." But it was at Bal Harbour that he was more comfortable politically. Amid the shards of the Johnsonian consensus, most of big labor remains loyal. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has already endorsed the President for reelection. The latest federation convention whooped through a resolution supporting the Administration's Viet Nam policy and, with Walter Reuther absent, there was barely a skeptic to be found. Instead of end-the-war placards, Johnson spotted one promoting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Preview of '68 | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Administration takes McCarthy's challenge seriously enough to plan a full-scale campaign of Johnsonian electors and stand-in candidates in New England. And, in fact, now that McCarthy is in the lists, he may actually benefit L.B.J. by turning unfocused discontent into a contest between visible opponents, solidifying strength behind the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Oh Come All Ye True Doves | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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