Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before Christmas, as Johnson was about to depart for Rome on his round-the-world tour, he called former White House Aide Horace Busby, now managing a Washington consulting firm, to his compartment aboard Air Force One. "What do you think I ought to do next year?" he asked, referring to the presidential race. Busby suggested that he withdraw. In mid-January he asked Busby and Christian to draft a withdrawal statement for use in his 1968 State of the Union speech...
...children at play. "Whenever things look the least bit good," he says, "I'd much rather talk about the American phenomenon of summer bachelors than Viet Nam." Because of this attitude, Cooke's critics charge him with reporting only the "smiling face of America," of "fiddling while Rome burns." To which Cooke once replied: "It is a crime for any generation to take the crisis of the world so solemnly as to put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place...
After the Denarius. Throughout history, rulers unable to handle their monetary affairs have resorted to devaluation. The ancient Romans began to debase the denarius under Nero (A.D. 54-68) after they ran into-but failed to recognize-their balance of payments problems. Founded on plunder, Rome as an empire lacked the manufacturing, agriculture and commerce to pay for its costly imports. Trajan added copper to the once 99%-pure-silver denarius, and later the coin became wholly base metal. A century before Alaric sacked the Eternal City in A.D. 410, Rome had lost not only its purchasing power but also...
...Beginning of Doom. Caesar, at 52, is on the Rubicon, with nine years of conquest behind him; Gaul and its three parts, the German barbarians, the Britons, have all been soundly, brilliantly beaten. Now his spies tell him that the Senators in Rome want to get rid of him as soon as the victory parade is over. Caesar is a visionary; they know it and fear him for it. He wants power to establish order, to set up a world republic; the corrupt bosses want to split the spoils he has won so dearly. Question: Should he return to Rome...
...some commercial stability to the system ravaged by his own wars; put through tax reforms; wrestled with the problems of labor and wages; and began to examine what we today call the problems of urban environment. . . He tried to reorganize the crowded city traffic that choked the streets of Rome, and, of course, like all men dealing with urban traffic ever since, failed...