Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...36th President of the U.S. and the man who will be No. 37 are two of the most pugnacious politicians of their generation. Yet both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon seemed determined last week to avoid the rancor that has so often accompanied the transfer of power...
...allow his immediate aides to exert the kind of authority that presidential assistants have enjoyed in recent Administrations. Under Johnson, Kennedy and Eisenhower, the White House staff often served as a buffer between the President and his Cabinet, and even leeched off much of the Cabinet's power. Nixon's men insist that there will be no Sherman Adams, Harry Hopkins, McGeorge Bundy or Bill Moyers standing between Nixon and his statutory policymakers in the Cabinet. The White House staff, they add, will concern itself far more with running the headquarters than fighting the main governmental battles...
Mervin Dymally, California State Representative of the Watts ghetto, last night criticized the Black Power movement for not participating in the electoral process...
...This year, the entire Harvard backfield is packed with power," Cozza continues. "They are a very versatile outfit and we expect to see a lot of razzle-dazzle...
...They talk about political power but it is an apolitical movement. You can't paint your living room by standing on the roof," he said at a speech in Emerson Hall. He admitted that politics has failed to solve the problems of the black people, but "not in every issue." He did not mention the issues in which politics had succeeded...