Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every recent Administration-not only Johnson's but also Dwight Eisenhower's and John Kennedy's-has been accused of manipulating the news, or at least of an occasional lack of candor. The press wants to know everything, preferably before it happens and preferably handed to it on a silver platter. Presidents and their Administrations naturally want to feed out information as they see fit, preferably in such a way as to make them look good. Last week Richard Nixon, who has always had trouble with the press, set up a system to cushion or deflect this...
Escape Route. A case in point occurred during Lyndon Johnson's recent visit to Manhattan to address the National Urban League. Lady Bird was being feted at a private party, a sit-down dinner for 18, and the President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
Self-invited. When the unexpected guest arrived at the party, attired in a trendy grey dinner jacket, blue-grey evening shirt and black evening slippers, a hush settled over the elegant living room. Johnson greeted the diners, who included Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Designer Mollie Parnis, Playwright Marc Connelly, ex-White House Aide Jack Valenti (now the $125,000-a-year president of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association). Soon Johnson fell into conversation with Williams and two other guests. He reminisced for a bit about the Old West and Artist Frederic Remington...
...Poor Nixon," said Johnson. "He's discovering he can't go anywhere without a hundred good friends from the press following him. Every time I'd go to the washroom I'd meet 40 of them on the way." The President removed his gold-rimmed glasses and rubbed his eyes. "I haven't been sleeping so well, you know, what with the bombing and all. Neither has Rusk. Poor Rusk. He came in the other night for a late conference with a terrible cold. I've had one, too, for the last six months...
What Hechler seeks is revival of the bill that President Johnson submitted to Congress last September, which died without so much as a committee hearing. If adopted, the measure would replace a toothless law enacted in 1952. It would...