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Ambassador to the U.N. to serve as a foreign policy adviser (see below). Ball's predecessor, Arthur Goldberg, signed on to help direct the Humphrey campaign in New York. Because both men were in varying degrees at odds with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam, their support helped put some daylight between Humphrey and the President. More will be needed before the Vice President can establish himself as his own man. But Humphrey is beginning to score some points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential...
Five months after being named United Nations Ambassador, George Wild-man Ball resigned last week to become Hubert Humphrey's chief foreign-policy adviser. There was immediate speculation that at least part of the reason for his precipitate action was disenchantment with Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies. Not so. As the President said, Ball's resignation "has nothing to do with public policy but does have something to do with domestic politics." Ball is plainly aghast at how badly Humphrey is faring in the presidential race, and if there is anything that can make him live...
ACCORDING to Kraslow and Loory, the coordination problem arose largely as result of a decision by Lyndon Johnson to gather into his own hands, and those of his top advisors, the day by day controls over the war. By June, 1966, Johnson's concern with the war was so great that he, Rusk and McNamara were choosing at Tuesday lunches all the sites to be bombed for the coming week. This was simply more detail than he could handle, and with his vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which...
...unusual for Presidents to take control of detail like this in times of crisis. Kenedy did it for two weeks in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. The problem was that the bombing of the North constituted a continuing crisis lasting for years. Lyndon Johnson's personal obsession with the war obviously aggravated the problem, but to some extent, the political failure of the first week of December 1966 is a failure of an institution --the presidency--which has increasingly been biting off more than it can chew. A year long crisis is an extreme example, but it contains...
...real impact. To the Humphrey people, it seemed more like subliminal sabotage. DDB dutifully went back to its storyboards, but not for long. Democratic Campaign Manager Larry O'Brien fired DDB, abruptly dumping the shop whose wry, whimsical ad techniques (Avis, Volkswagen) had worked so well for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Humphrey's people called in Campaign Planners, a group formed largely of staffers from Lennen & Newell, the nation's 14th largest agency...