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...security affairs, sent him on a series of good-will missions abroad. But there was no closeness between the two men. "What ever became of Lyndon?" was by summer 1963 a real, rather than a funny, question. Nonetheless, by Humphrey's time the vice-presidency, as Historian James MacGregor Burns has written, had been largely "integrated into the structure of presidential power and decision-making...
...diversions, when people followed the varied Senate debate with delight and wonder. It also has lost some of its former function as the country's educator in public issues: such education comes from many other sources now. But it retains considerable influence on national opinion, and Professor James MacGregor Burns, for one, believes that this influence is more important than its old formal power in the checks-and-balances system. "What the President wants today is the advice and consent of the American people," says Burns. "The Senate is important to any President in how it affects this advice...
Johnson's Great Society is in large measure based on belated governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate...
According to popular Washington legend, James MacGregor Burns has seldom found it necessary to visit the capital in order to write his gooks about the national government. Many historians say his history is so weak that he must be a political scientist, while the political scientists say that his political science is so weak that he must be an historian. None of Burns's many critics will be disappointed with the fodder he has provided them in his latest view from Williamstown, Presidential Government...