Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ike ordered a search for the man who knew most about depressions and their causes to head the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The search soon narrowed to Burns.
Computerized Job Bank. As a policy adviser, Burns' record is uneven. He opposed repeal of the 7% investment tax credit-and lost. He won on another question by persuading the Administration to come out against taxing the interest on state and municipal bonds. He sold Nixon on the idea...
As head of the council, he also made a lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor...
On the crucial matter of handling the economy, Nixon has been following Burns' advice. They are in agreement: the pressures that are being applied are right, and results will come if the Government stays on its course. Because Burns is reluctant to change his mind once he has made...
When Burns decided on Columbia as the college of his choice, he went about applying with typical directness; he marched straight to the office of the president. Advised that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him...