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The dollar-bolstering campaign that President Johnson sprang on an unsuspecting world during the first day of 1968 was conceived in secrecy worthy of a major military maneuver. Even as Johnson was winging around the globe last month, cables were flashing between Washington and his silver-and-blue jet, Air...
Nonetheless, ABC greeted Geneen's news with what Vice President James C. Hagerty called "a sort of relief." After all, the ITT deal pretty much constrained the network from seeking other sources of help. Now free to maneuver, ABC may well issue new securities to raise the capital it...
Stirring Vision. In his application of naked power, Johnson is an acknowledged virtuoso as his Viet Nam critics ruefully concede. Despite thunderous criticism of his intervention in the Dominican Republic, the President's swift application of military strength followed by an intense diplomatic campaign proved, in the end, a successful...
This should not astound President Johnson. For Mr. Dirksen is at least as consistent a party booster as he is a leader of Congressional reactionaries on foreign policy. Mr. Johnson should realize, however, that the hawkish wing of the G.O.P.--epitomized by the snake-haired Illinoisan--is seriously tinkering with...
The Administration claimed the November 2 shift might make a debate before the Security Council meaningful at last. But this maneuver has precisely the opposite effect. Washington knows that a debate in the Security Council would offer this country a better opportunity to answer the Vietcong than in General Assembly...