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Colleges and universities have seen tuition and fees outpace yearly inflation since the inception of the Guaranteed Student Loan program by the Johnson administration in 1965. Yet what President Lyndon B. Johnson intended as a supplement to college funding—loans— has now become the main course...
...style and tendency to quote the classics, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for four decades, was an erudite icon. A tenacious athlete--he got his Taekwondo black belt at 78--Valenti was well suited to his role as Hollywood lobbyist-ambassador. One of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, he was in the motorcade in which John F. Kennedy was killed and attended Johnson's sober swearing-in on Air Force One. As head of the MPAA from 1966 to 2004, he championed open markets for movies, fought digital piracy, decried censorship and launched...
...well or reasonably well, and the incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
...worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington when Johnson was sworn in as President. As devoted as one of the big man's beagles, Valenti famously said, "I sleep each night a little better...
...people have the inside view of the bathrooms of U.S. Presidents. As the main White House plumber for seven Presidents, Howard Arrington (above, center) fished out golf balls that Dwight Eisenhower drove into the South Lawn fountain and appeased a testy Lyndon Johnson's demands for more body sprays in his shower. After Watergate made plumbing a nasty euphemism, Arrington explained, "I'm the real White House plumber...