Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ranch recuperation, but the strong TV lights accentuated new lines in his face and highlighted a thin, somewhat scrawny neck. It was a long speech-53 minutes-and the President read it rapidly, sometimes almost perfunctorily. It was devoid of any high rhetoric or drama -intentionally so. The President wanted to make it plain that he was saying as much as he could about the war and, at the same time, had far more domestic plans than anyone had imagined...
...with his third State of the Union address, that expectation has been heightened by the presence of some considerable differences from previous years. For one thing, the President has just returned to the capital after a twelve-week convalescence that he spent mostly in the isolation of his Texas ranch. For an other, the scenery around him has been transformed by the ever growing demands of the Viet Nam war and by the activity triggered by his "peace offensive" aimed at ending that war (see cover story...
...aptly enough, on Veterans Day last fall that the idea of linking another, longer bombing pause with a peace offensive first blossomed. Gathered at the L.B.J. ranch for a working holiday with the President were Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy and Bill Moyers. The four enthusiastically recommended it to Johnson, but the President feared that so dramatic and massive a campaign might be mistaken for a public relations ploy or, worse, an indication of U.S. lack of resolve in the war. But Johnson was willing to consider it further. "All right," he said, "I want you to start looking...
...bombing, then the quiet peace offensive. L.B.J. quickly vetoed the no-bombing public declaration. "For me to stand up and announce a bombing pause," he asserted, "would be to admit that this was a propaganda circus." With that, the President fell silent, and his advisers left the ranch convinced he was going to reject the whole idea...
...average $119. Poor "Bessie." No sooner had the word hit the wire-service tickers than Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, denounced the increase as inflationary; he later charged that Bethlehem was profiteering from the Viet Nam war. And from his Texas ranch, President Johnson called Bethlehem's move "unnecessary" and "unwarranted...