Word: konrad
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Only when he treated Konrad Adenauer to a barbecue at the LBJ Ranch or invited a camel driver from Pakistan to come to Washington did Johnson emerge from behind the wall of obscurity that surrounds the vice-President. The brilliant administrator, the manager of Senators has spent his time touring Scandinavia and mending Democratic fences in Texas. The few jobs assigned to him seemed to be sinecures created to give the vice-President something...
...spent twelve years in exile during the Nazi dictatorship, returned in 1946 to help rebuild the party under the leadership of fiery Kurt Schumacher, took command after Schumacher's death, and though he attempted to woo the middle-class vote, suffered resounding defeats at the hand of Konrad Adenauer in the 1953 and 1957 elections, after which he increasingly delegated leadership to younger politicians; of a lung ailment; in Bonn...
Germany's welfare program was launched by Bismarck, who wanted to undercut the Socialists; it was continued by Hitler. Old legislation usually stayed on the books while new measures were piled on. Konrad Adenauer continued to build the welfare state, often adding benefits at election time. Since 1950, the cost of the social program has quadrupled to 12.5 billion dollars, creating what looms as the biggest headache in Erhard's administration...
Some believe that trade with the Red bloc may have political advantage-by making the satellites less dependent on Moscow and possibly making Moscow more dependent on the West. Others, notably West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, feel that the West should trade with Russia only in return for cold war concessions. Washington believes that this policy is not feasible, if only because U.S. allies are eager to trade with the Reds, are scarcely even willing to rule out strategic items that NATO specifically forbids. Western European exports to the Soviet bloc last year climbed...
...Germany's new Chancellor, one of his first decisions was to do away with the Porsche police escort that whisked Konrad Adenauer to and from the office. Then Ludwig Erhard, 66, issued orders that no government official was to be supplied with the new 20½-ft. Mercedes 600 (U.S. price: $23,000), adding that the 300 SE (around $10,000) was snappy enough. And just the other day he was seen waiting patiently in line at a Bonn pastry shop to buy two pieces of cake to take home for the afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen with his wife...