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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President is obviously the embodiment and leader of these people who have paid their taxes, kept the wheels of the country turning, absorbed ridicule from their children and from college professors without saying much. Nixon has given a voice to the majority that did not know it was a majority. Suddenly a few things seem to be going right. This is encouragement to Nixon; this is what his kind of people can do. There is something to be said for it. There is some praise due all those middle-stratum Americans who do the best they know how, trying...
...stayed up all night and typed Bobby's speech on Viet Nam" in February 1966, Ethel Kennedy recalled last week. During the 1968 campaign, Mary Jo worked in the "Boiler Room" of R.F.K.'s Washington campaign headquarters, where the running count of convention delegates was kept. Mary Jo joined three other young women in renting a small Georgetown house on Olive Street. Though bright, blonde and at least conventionally pretty, she had little social life outside of the office. Michael Dinunzio, who later worked with her in a Colorado Senate campaign, recalled: "She had no plans for marriage. Her total...
...anything like that really in prospect for the foreseeable future? Probably not. One primary cause of recessions is top-heavy business inventories. In 1966, companies unwisely kept on piling up stocks of goods even as sales were falling; they then had to liquidate quickly, and the result was a steep drop in production-and the "mini-recession" of 1967. An encouraging sign this year is that inventories have been closely keeping pace with sales, and businessmen-having learned from the past-are not overstocked...
...Sachs office, he was taken on as a porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity value it gave him on Wall Street. Until his death, he kept on display in his office the brass spittoon that he had supposedly polished as his first job at Goldman, Sachs...
This cozy system is capable of enormous dynamism. Once a decision has been reached, everyone who participated works single-mindedly to carry it out. But foreign companies are kept out of Japan largely because they might not abide by decisions of the day clubs, and those that are allowed in are prevented from becoming too pushy...