Word: presiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next article on the Presiden't plan, Harris L. Hartz tries to resurrect the four-year term. He proposes that "Congressional districts should be doubled in size by joining adjacent districts in the same state. Each district should then have two representatives one elected with the President, one in a off-year election." Hartz answers a number of criticisms of his plan with a welter of detail and statistical data. Indeed, his plan seems almost convincing except for one point: could party machinery handle the switch to the new plan? But intra-party haggling over such a plan...
Taking as his text Presiden't Johnson's Great Society speech at Ann Arbor, Editor Luce described it as "marking one of the ten or twelve great milestones in American history. This country needed it, was ready and waiting for it. And magazines had a great deal to do with making the country ready and waiting." Magazines did so, among other ways, by their stress on self-improvement, a characteristic that differentiates America from other times and lands where "men and women have been schooled to accept the lot into which God or fate put them...
...York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston saw the Presiden-elect as a man sobered by a closer look at reality: "Kennedy himself has had a shock. He has come to the conclusion that there was not only some truth in what he said in the campaign, but that the economy and the world situation are even worse than he thought. Accordingly, there is no longer any cavalier talk around Democratic headquarters about 'the first 100 days.' Nobody is promising a flood of legislation that will make Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days look tame...