Word: lyndon
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...third time on the eve of a primary--it happened in Wisconsin, it happened when I was out in Iowa, it happened up here in New Hampshire--"peace is at hand." Go back and look at it. Oh yes, he's learned to use the power, better than Lyndon did, he's learned to use the manipulation of the press better than lots--call them in at 7:00 on the morning of a primary, with this wonderful "peace is at hand" kind of thing. That's not what, I guess, we were looking...
...There's an impression one night when I asked him about the political process. I said, "The people complain you're not a good enough politician, and they want you to do well, Mr. President," and he said, "I can't imagine sitting around and doing things the way Lyndon Johnson and Ev Dirksen used to do, trading judgeships." For me at least, that was quite revealing: it settled the way he really felt, and this perception of the process as something he wouldn't do. That's a problem--not that you have to trade judgeships, and somebody else...
...where paper ballots are used, each voter is given both a Democratic and a Republican ballot and told to mark whichever one he wishes. Wisconsin has a history of sending signals to candidates: to John Kennedy that he was on the way to nomination in 1960; to Lyndon Johnson that he was in grave trouble in 1968. This year the signal was that voters are turning away from the Democrats. Last week, for the first time in 20 years, the Republican vote topped the Democratic vote, and heavily, 895,000 to 621,000. Moreover, enough independents and Democrats voted...
DIED. Arthur Okun, 51, liberal economist and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Lyndon B. Johnson; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Adviser to three Democratic Presidents and many corporate leaders, and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, Okun was known for his handy formulations as well as his economic analyses. If the elusive recession ever comes, it will be identified by Okun's universally used definition: two consecutive quarters of negative G.N.P. growth. In the early 1960s he devised Okun's Law: for every 3% jump in economic growth, unemployment...
Unlike the situation in 1964, when Democratic Incumbent Lyndon Johnson was still very popular, Reagan confronts a Democratic President who, after a temporary surge in the national polls because of the crises in Iran and Afghanistan, is now plagued by declining job ratings. The odds are that by fall, Carter will be trying to defend his management of an economy with double-digit inflation and rising unemployment, gasoline prices of upwards of $2 per gal. and a reduced budget that offends many of the traditional Democratic-constituencies. New York Opinion Researcher Daniel Yankelovich sums it up: "The biggest thing Reagan...