Word: lyndoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good man who has been every American's scapegoat for the past five years was indeed sincere in his efforts to move the U.S. ahead. Economic, domestic and international problems have long been festering in our country and the world. They did not arrive in Washington when Lyndon Johnson took of fice; nor is it likely that they will leave with Richard Nixon as President...
...going to enter into serious arms-control talks with the Russians. The new President must make up his mind whether to frame a State of the Union address of his own. He has to decide exactly how, if at all, he should rework the budget inherited from Lyndon Johnson. The continuing Middle East crisis calls for patient, imaginative attention. Not least, in Dr. Moynihan's special preserve, the White House must decide which urban problems it can most effectively attack, and how the assault can best be mounted...
...ready with studies on three top-priority subjects: the nation's strategic posture, U.S. options and prospects in Viet Nam, and the ramifications of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. These and other studies will form the basis of discussions at the N.S.C. twice-weekly meetings; under Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy, the N.S.C. held formal meetings only occasionally...
With a mixture of prophecy and prescription, Lyndon Johnson last week summed up the chief economic challenge that he bequeaths to Richard Nixon. In his final economic report to Congress, he called for a strategy aimed at slowly reducing both inflation and the excessive boom in business. The principal ingredients are a small-and perhaps precarious-budget surplus (see THE NATION) and a Federal Reserve Board policy of permitting the supply of money and credit to expand less than it has over the past three years. What the nation must avoid, warned Johnson, is "an overdose of restraint" that could...
...high in 1967, when it grew 47%; last year, with a growth of 2.6%, it was 296th. Like the Manhattan Fund and many other big funds, Channing was heavily invested in the more seasoned glamour stocks-Ling-Temco-Vought, Fairchild Camera, Polaroid-that declined during the stock slump before Lyndon Johnson's March 31 renunciation, and have been slow to recover. Big funds cannot move out of such stocks quickly without upsetting the market; but smaller funds can-and they did. In a highly selective market, says Channing's Green, "There is no doubt that a small fund...