Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson loyalists can hardly be expected to suggest that the war has, after all, been a mistake, or to conjure up a speedy solution after so many years of searching for one. Hubert Humphrey's adherents, while professing residual loyalty to Johnson's policies, must at the same time proffer some hope for an early and tenable peace. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern, though nominally rivals, will continue to urge approximately similar terms for ending the war posthaste...
...bombing pause. Humphrey too, in private Administration deliberations, has been arguing for a pause. He is inclined to take the lull at face value, to accept it as a pacific gesture of sufficient weight to justify a bombing suspension. In public, of course, he cannot break with the Johnson Administration. Yet Humphrey clearly is continuing to edge toward a more conciliatory position, in the process attempting to come out on the left of Richard Nixon...
...that is not his style. Trends are what interest him. He was one of the first to note the Republican Party's switch to a more pragmatic, less contentious brand of politics after the disaster of 1964. He was among the earliest to spot the decay of Lyndon Johnson's consensus politics and the virtual collapse of the Democratic National Committee. Rather than complain, as they might have in the case of other reporters, Democratic politicians privately thanked Broder for pointing out their delinquencies. "Seventy-five percent of covering the political beat," says Broder, "is the ability...
...joined the steel fight of 1966, which followed much the same script. There was the same hero, U.S. Steel and its chairman, Roger Blough, who undercut by roughly 50% the price increases posted by the same villain, Bethlehem and its chairman, Edmund Martin. And there was the same Lyndon Johnson, who declared himself pleased with the denouement...
...Administration's campaign had begun soon after the Bethlehem announcement. Arguing that a 5% across-the-board increase was unreasonable, Johnson ordered Government agencies to buy steel only from companies that held the price line. Spearheading the attack was the Defense Department, whose 3.7 million-ton annual steel consumption (half of which goes for ammunition) accounts for nearly 4% of the industry's output...