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WEAL cited figures showing that women compose 19.8 per cent of the approximately 500 students in the school, a proportion that pales in comparison to the 30.6 per cent of the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School, the 38 per cent of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and the 52.3 per cent of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. WEAL charged that these startling statistics--coupled with its failure to contact minority or women's groups and to expand its employment advertising to minority and women's lackadaisical search for minority women scholars. In short...
...Missouri, who hopes to establish later this year a bipartisan blue-ribbon committee on reorganization of the Government, believes that a new national consensus has been needed ever since the basic objectives and priorities began to blur about 15 years ago. That was the time, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing that increase in public alienation. "Lyndon Johnson forgot to ask for a tax increase to pay for the Viet Nam War," Boiling says wryly, "and that was the breaking point. In the absence of a broad overall concept, people...
...author goes there to see Arthur Burns, then chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and discovers that events in Washington are part of the problem. In the first half of the '60s, U.S. inflation frolicked between 1% and 2%. Then Lyndon Johnson spent billions for war in Southeast Asia and his Great Society programs. This bequeathed to Richard Nixon a 5% inflation rate, which he tried to curb by tightening credit, raising taxes and instituting wage and price controls. When the controls came off, money under pressure shot into the marketplace, and now double-digit...
Prior to joining the Carter administration in June 1978 at the invitation of former attorney general Benjamin R. Civiletti, Heymann, who is 48, served in the State Department under former president Lyndon B. Johnson. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1969, and later aided Archibald Cox '34 when he served as special prosecutor investigating Watergate
...lasting impression on U.S. legal affairs by making important decisions just as they were turning over power to the rival party. Before President John Adams left office in 1801, he appointed more than 200 "midnight judges" in an effort to pack the judicial system with his fellow Federalists. On Lyndon Johnson's last working day in the White House, the Justice Department filed a monumental antitrust suit to break up IBM. Twelve years later, the case is still dragging through the court...