Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COVER is a photomontage by Robert Crandall. The composite picture, containing photos by Steve Schapiro, Jim Wells, Laurence Fink and John Stewart Olson, symbolizes the major problems that face the incoming Administration of President Richard Nixon. The four segments illustrate student protest, the Viet Nam war, the problems of the cities and law and order...
Ganglia of Government. The task that confronts him is formidable. Beyond setting broad policies, choosing from the plethora of recommendations being churned out by his advisers, keeping close vigil over the Viet Nam negotiations and the conduct of the war itself, Nixon must establish control over the balky federal bureaucracy. The vast ganglia of government, housed in 141 buildings in and around the capital, cornmand 6,300,000 in military and civilian personnel (the figure was just 4,800,000 when Nixon left Washington in 1961). Somewhat apprehensively, this awesome apparat still waited for the impact of the change...
...Office Success. It was one of the ironies of the transition period that while the lower levels of government awaited new superiors and unknown policy guidelines, Nixon was nonetheless making himself felt at the top. On Viet Nam, particularly, he acted almost as a coPresident, assisting the Johnson Administration in bringing Saigon into the expanded Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD). He scrupulously observed his pledge to act in concert with Lyndon Johnson on foreign affairs from November through January...
During much of the period between election and Inauguration, Richard Nixon purposely remained in the wings, saying little, digesting masses of reports from 21 study groups on problems ranging from the guaranteed annual wage to the post-Viet Nam economy. Now center stage is unavoidable. Nixon's first official address was an evocation of the striving and optimism that are basic to the American temperament: "We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light...
Johnson's mood was solemn as he spoke of the war. "I regret more than any of you know," he said, "that it has not been possible to restore peace to South Viet Nam." But he scorned critics who have contended that Viet Nam has drained needed funds from butter for guns. "We have been able in the last five years to increase our commitments for such things as health and education from $30 billion in 1964 to $68 billion in the coming fiscal year. That's more than it's ever been increased...