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Johnson's replies to reporters' questions tend to boil down to a rehash of the Administration's pat reasons for American policy in Vietnam, occasional diatribes against some rumor reported by a newspaper, and a few straightforward answers to innocuous queries. For example on February 27, Johnson was asked about published reports concerning the replacement of Secretary of State Rusk by Ambassador Goldberg. The President answered testily that newspapers periodically carry on against Rusk; he concluded "I would not believe that the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune would be in the business of predicting of nominating...
...true identity. Then, according to the police, he broke down and began to tell all. Acting on his information, police have already pulled in several suspects and some smuggling gear, including a jacket with specially constructed pockets for carrying gold bars. Many Bombay gold traders were anxious, for rumor had it that Walcott had been mixed up with a gang that had smuggled no less than $150 million in gold and diamonds into India during the past four years...
Horrified Rumor. Thus, Wall Street was suitably horrified last week as rumors swept the Street that Balderston's replacement might be none other than Galbraith. If the President nominates an easy-money advocate, the Board's one-vote margin for higher interest rates would disappear and Bill Martin might resign. Johnson has reportedly rejected three men for Balderston's chair, has not yet made up his mind. The business community particularly opposes the appointment of another man like Sherman Maisel, an easy-money man and a former University of California economics professor named to the board...
...Rumor has it that Detroit's Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, has been number one on President Johnson's list of possible Secretaries of the New Housing and Urban Affairs Department. Cavanagh, as one of the outstanding mayors in the nation, is an obvious choice for the new Cabinet post. At the same time, the Mayor has such a strong and promising political base in Detroit that he probably doesn't want a merely appointive...
...then the snarling exterior? For one thing, it's good tactics. In the protection business, the grizzly rumor serves better than modest fact. If the white Southerner thinks the Deacons are more like the Gestapo than Pinkerton's Security Service, why enlighten...