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Moreover, the convention produced some welcome reforms. The venerable unit rule, often used to smother dissent in party affairs, was summarily scrapped. A standing measure to encourage minority representation at future conventions was strengthened. Rebels challenging the regular delegations from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi got full or partial satisfaction. Said one disgruntled Georgian: "The white conservative vote in the South is not wanted by the present party leaders...
...Robert Kennedy, who, as everyone had pointed out, would wait four more years-but then rushed into the race after McCarthy's victory. Not Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet Nam. (Everyone had learned to expect such sudden surprises from 1968, and from L.B.J., that till the last moment there was doubt if he really meant...
...says cheerily that his mouth is now "in partial retirement...
Going well beyond that analysis, Presidential Adviser Joe Califano pronounced Big Steel's action a "major victory." Just seven days after Bethlehem, the No. 2 producer, announced its price hike, the steel industry had been forced into a partial "rollback." Minutes after U.S. Steel announced its move, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, summoned reporters to his Washington office and pronounced himself gratified. Spread industrywide, Bethlehem's increase would have filtered through the economy as a $1.1 billion rise in consumer prices. Now, he said, "the American consumer has been saved...
When President Johnson announced the partial halt of North Viet Nam air strikes March 31, he left the strong impression that the bombers would be confined to areas just north of the 17th parallel and the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South. But he left the cutoff line vague on State Department advice, and the vagueness was deliberate. State strategists figured that the impact on world opinion would be greatest if immediately after his statement the bombing frontier was dramatically cut back to the vicinity of the 17th parallel. Diplomats assumed that the Pentagon would understand these motives...