Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 24, and Major Charles S. Robb, 29, currently on duty in Viet Nam with the 1st Marine Division: a girl, their first child, and President Johnson's second grandchild; in Bethesda...
...once the envied passport to a life of gaieté parisienne. Since Charles de Gaulle's relations with Washington turned frosty in the early 1960s, however, the post has had some of the aspects of representing the U.S. in a hostile land. There were those who suspected Lyndon Johnson of shipping Sargent Shriver to the Siberian salt mines when the President picked him to succeed Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Paris. Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver has brought...
...helped in his new diplomacy, but he was also fortunate to arrive at the time of a new detente cordiale between the U.S. and France. Chip Bohlen, Shriver's predecessor, got along well enough with De Gaulle personally. But official relations began to thaw only after President Johnson restricted the bombing of North Viet Nam in March. De Gaulle hailed that as "an act of reason and political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France's May riots, which shook the Gaullist...
...explain why he expects the Administration's policies to cool the U.S. economy soon, Economist Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. "Reuben," says the shark, "you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt...
Continuing inflation has intensified the debate about a cure and how long the task will take. At a Hot Springs, Va., meeting of the Business Council, a group of corporate executives who generally support the Johnson Administration's policies, there were plenty of questions about what the next president might have to do. The consensus of 20 council economists was that an economic slowdown next year, however temporary, would tempt a new Administration to ease off on the brakes prematurely. The result might be more inflation, followed by a "major recession" in late 1970 and early...