Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also find his role severely circumscribed. In their first meeting after the election, Nixon announced that he would give Agnew substantive responsibilities not held by previous Vice Presidents, but failed to spell them out. Agnew will not have independent executive offices or an executive staff-perquisites that Nixon, Johnson and Humphrey all enjoyed. Instead, the Vice President-elect will have an office in the White House and use Nixon's staff. Agnew thus will be kept conveniently close at hand, where Nixon and his aides can keep...
Awkward Interim. Aside from his talent hunt, Nixon's foremost chore for the next nine weeks is making plans to revise the fiscal 1970 budget that Johnson's men are already preparing. In his last State of the Union message, the President may well ask Congress to enact a raft of domestic programs of Johnsonian scope. Nixon's inaugural speech will have to offer constructive alternatives. For that reason, the President-elect must soon devote considerable attention to specific legislation and budgetary requests...
When Richard Nixon's entourage vis ited the White House, one campaign aide expressed surprise at how "cellularized" Lyndon Johnson's staff is. Nixon intends to change that. The group of personal assistants he began to assemble last week is being billed as a select cadre of versatile generalists, As one aide put it: "We don't want specific people locked into specific boxes...
...group shapes up into two echelons, and will probably be smaller than Johnson's 20-member personal staff. Members of the top rank will carry the title of "assistant" or "counsel" to the President. The second level will consist of "special assistants." As do most Presidents, Nixon is drawing heavily on old subordinates and advisers who have served him through many campaigns. Six of the seven men Nixon named last week have no Washington experience. Three, in fact, are recent alumni...
...general adviser in a number of fields, including national security. An Oklahoman, Harlow served as General George Marshall's Capitol Hill liaison man during World War II, later headed the House Armed Services Committee staff and became a White House assistant under Dwight Eisenhower. During the Kennedy-Johnson years he was Procter & Gamble's chief Washington representative...