Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson had trouble enough with the 90th Congress, even though his own party controlled both houses. Richard Nixon, facing a Capitol Hill controlled by the opposition, will have to be a consummate politician if he is to get anything but misery from the 91st. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, concedes that the next President "will have to be the greatest salesman of the century" to get his programs across. While the real test of his powers of persuasion will not come for months, Nixon's moves so far have been calculated...
...reliance on the private sector in coping with domestic problems as the principal difference between his approach and the Democrats'. Mills himself is no big spender. His insistence on economies as the price for enacting the income tax surcharge last June caused a lengthy deadlock with Lyndon Johnson. But Mills opposes tax remission as "backdoor spending," a bookkeeping gambit that can reduce the tax base and make the federal budget even more misleading than it already...
...removed from a genteel bribe. And the taking of them is bound to strike some people, starting with us, as something very like a political shakedown." Rooney sailed off to Japan for one of his regular inspections. In Tokyo he will confer with Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and look for luxuries lurking in embassy operations...
M.I.T. claims that Rostow's hawkish advice to Lyndon Johnson had nothing to do with the rejection. In 1964, after a four-year leave of absence, Rostow told the university he would stay in government, thereby offering his resignation. Now M.I.T.'s economics department does not want him back for three rea sons. First, Rostow has been away too long and his courses are being taught differently. Second, Rostow's own interests have changed from economics to world politics. Lastly, there is a deep-running hostility to Rostow as a scholar. Indeed, when Rostow published his celebrated...
...where to now? Last week the University of Texas announced that Rostow and his wife, a professor of government, will be on its faculty as of February. Also slated to join them is another new prof: Lyndon B. Johnson...