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...everyone was quite so generous. Former LBJ aide Eric Goldman felt the speech underscored Johnson's fundamental failure, which was to understand the modern city and the people--"the corporation executives from Scarsdale"--who live in it. Arthur Schlesinger didn't like the speech because it included no "analysis" of how the war had been bad for the Great Society programs, and more generally because the President did not convey enough of a sense of the mess that he was leaving the country...
...MANY MORE jokes can be made about Spiro Agnew? Or LBJ? Or the upper middle-class? These are the problems gripping the political theatre, now a permanent fixture both here and in New York...
Leading 'Others": Halstead 33; Gregory 29; Mitchell 25; Paulsen 23; also Kennedy, Percy, Lindsay, McGovern, and LBJ...
...convention--complete with noisemakers and red, white, and blue bunting, and quotes from FDR, Eisenhower, and LBJ on big placards on the walls--was the culmination of three-months' work by neighborhood caucuses...
...LBJ.'s Role. Shuttling between the East Coast and his 22-acre Triple-H homeplace in Waverly, Minn., Humphrey devoted much of the week to strengthening the creaking Democratic machinery (see following story) in preparation for his formal campaign kickoff this week in Washington. One crucial question that remains unresolved is what role Lyndon Johnson will play in his Vice President's campaign. The President has told Humphrey privately that it may be best for him to do nothing, and last week Johnson declared at a press conference that he does not intend to undertake "partisan activities...