Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every such confrontation." Later, he attacked the Johnson Administration for not prosecuting the Viet Nam war more vigorously...
...education and welfare, but only as backstop to states and local communities. A leading backer of the Viet Nam war, he made a calculated switch last year and argued that the Republicans must appear as the party of peace, that Viet Nam was something to hang around Lyndon Johnson's neck. Laird does not plan to visit Viet Nam until his appointment is confirmed by the Senate. As he puts it: "Such visits should be made when they count...
...Shoreham. He forgot to name Maurice Stans as he introduced his Secretary of Commerce, and he referred to President Kennedy's "first inaugural"; there was, of course, only one. But he spoke without notes or lectern, in marked contrast to the wrap-around electronic prompters Lyndon Johnson regularly uses. Because of the ease and experience that he gained on camera in the 1968 campaign, he plans to make repeated informal use of TV in his Administration to get even closer to U.S. firesides than Franklin Roosevelt did with his celebrated radio chats. As one aide explains: "How else...
...long briefing on the problems the new Administration will face. The wives were invited, Nixon explained, because "I want them to be there on the takeoffs-so that they may avoid a crash landing a little later." (Some of the wives dutifully took notes.) Meanwhile, Luci Johnson Nugent started her opposite number, Tricia Nixon, and an entourage of 33 children aged six to 27-all of them offspring of the incoming Cabinet-off on a VIP tour of Washington that included lunch in the Capitol on the Senate dining room's famed bean soup. The venerable House doorkeeper, William...
...Volumes. Their fathers then settled down for serious briefings with their opposites in the Johnson Administration. Many of Nixon's appointees to the White House staff met their Johnson-era counterparts and chatted informally in the West Wing basement mess. At the State Department, the Cabinet-to-be and their wives met their own vis-avis socially. Then many of the Nixon nominees went to the incumbents' offices for lengthy discussion of their new responsibilities. They came away with fat briefing volumes prepared for them with part of the $900,000 that Congress authorized this year...