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...manager, says, "This is a state in which a young guy without means or connections knows the sky is the limit if he runs for public office???and this is why so many...
...retrospect, Johnson thinks his greatest mistake was waiting too long?18 months in office???before putting more men in, for by then Viet Nam was almost lost. Another mistake, he feels, was failing to institute censorship?not to cover up mistakes, but to prevent the enemy from knowing what the U.S. was going to do next. As for trying to hide the troop buildup, L.B.J.'s rationale is that he was trying to avoid inflaming hawk sentiment in the U.S. and to avoid goading Hanoi into calling on the Communist Chinese for help...
...family belligerent has turned his hostility outward?toward the System. He has established a modest production office???where he arrives anonymously in a Volkswagen. His movie company, Pando, forbids the word star. "We have other words that concern us," he boasts. "We will make documentary films designed to overthrow the church, Mom, Dad and fashion in general." Such projects are unlikely to feature Henry?and possibly not even Jane. But then the family similarity is marbled with varied outlooks and insights. They are not yet the new Barrymores. "We're not a theatrical family," insists Peter. "Someone else may think...
Occasionally in recent months he has gone on campaigns of self-depreciating humor that debunk the nature of his office???usually with the aid of Paul Keyes, a former writer and co-producer for Laugh-In. Two weeks ago at a meeting of the American Bakers Association, Agnew excused himself by remarking: "The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking." Earlier, at a Gridiron Club dinner, he described the joys of the vice-presidency. "I have my own plane?Air Force 13. It's a glider...
...most astonishing, to be heard not at all. Within twelve hours after his resignation in the wake of a referendum vote against his policies, workmen had moved his artifacts and files from the Elysee Palace. The presidential communication lines to Colombey were cut, and the other trappings of his office???except for a secretary, a bodyguard and a chauffeur, to which he was entitled along with a $35,000 pension?evaporated like a morning dew. The long era of Charles de Gaulle was over, for France and for the rest of the world...