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Johnson says that "PBH work is less flashy, but gives more of a long-lasting catharsis" than what he calls "rhetorical politics."
Johnson says that "PBH work is less flashy, but gives more of a long-lasting catharsis" than what he calls "rhetorical politics."
In 1979, Johnson returned to Harvard to save a sinking PBH, which then had only $95 in the bank. Six years ago, he says, PBH was caught up in ideological debates and investment decisions. It was "distracted from social service, caught up in rhetorical politics," Johnson says.
This time, however, the Reagan team arrived at the summit sounding a markedly different rhetorical tone. "We need help," proclaimed Secretary of the Treasury James Baker in an internationally televised session with foreign reporters the week before. His point: the U.S. economy can no longer be the locomotive pulling the...
Even Reagan's fabled mastery of television was failing, at least temporarily, to work its accustomed magic. In a forceful speech to the nation on Wednesday night, the President summoned all his rhetorical resources to appeal for public support of the $52 billion in spending cuts in the fiscal 1986...