Word: johnsonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much larger than that kind of caper. Undermining Republican appointees, after all, has limited polit ical value. Thus Mollenhoff is continuing old crusades he pursued in his frontpage days. He aided Republican Senator John Williams in gathering material for the Senator's charge last week against the Johnson Administration. Friends of L.B.J., said Williams, got $2,000,000 worth of federal land in Austin almost as a gift from lame duck Johnson officials...
...Tennessee, Dirksen's son-in-law, most of Scott's strength came from a coalition of moderates and liberals; but, he says, his reputation as an aggressive activist "got me the two crucial votes I needed." Dirksen had antagonized some Republicans by his celebrated coziness with Lyndon Johnson and by the highly personalized manner of his leadership. Scott deliberately follows the reverse course. He is committed to making no under-the-table deals with the opposition, and -partly out of personal conviction, partly because of pressure from his party colleagues-the pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian has moved to spread...
...form of a sedate and pragmatic U.S. approach to relations with its neighbors. Businesslike and low-keyed, his proposals were a far cry-and, some felt, a refreshingly realistic departure-from the soaring vision of John Kennedy's Alliance or the "Decade of Urgency" that Lyndon Johnson proclaimed at the conference of hemisphere Presidents in Punta del Este, Uruguay, more than two years...
...research, while reducing secret military work and rejecting "projects involving the actual development of a prototype weapons system, except in times of grave national emergency." The panel also urged the university to set up a standing committee of faculty, students and lab staffers to advise M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson on which projects the labs should accept or continue to pursue. The recommendations pleased the moderate majority of M.I.T.'s faculty, which last month voted 450 to 11 to put them into effect on a trial basis...
Gray added that both the Center for International Studies (CIS) and the administrative offices-targets of Tuesday's protests-were operating normally with the exception of President Howard W. Johnson's office which was not occupied "because the president had moved elsewhere on the campus." He refused to say where...