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...these factors will give him considerable leverage, which he has not had in recent months. And Lyndon Johnson, who above all else craves a favorable verdict from history, will undoubtedly use those levers in a final, all-out effort to solve the two problems that have increasingly bedeviled his presidency???the war in Viet Nam, the racial confrontation at home...
...University of North Carolina sat in his office at Chapel Hill and pondered. He was not thinking about the university of which he has been the chief executive for ten years, but of a vast educational plant 650 miles away of which he had just accepted the presidency???the University of Illinois...
Strangely enough, when the Old Guard turned on Mr. Butler and picked the handiest candidate for the Vice Presidency???General Dawes?it did not greatly alter the busino-political spirit of the ticket. Dawes differs greatly from the Coolidge type: the Republican candidates may well be dubbed "Cautious Cal and Charging Charlie." Yet Mr. Dawes does not fly the flag of politics above the pennants of all other considerations. His very vigor is a challenge to the pure-political school of leaders...