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...sheaf of Johnson's key measures are moribund for this year at least-highway beautification, gun controls, aid to elementary and secondary education and, most significantly, the President's proposal for a 10% income tax surcharge...
...beak, Johnson studies reports, chats with reporters and staff members. In this womb with no view, he is at ease, cheerful, convinced that the country and the world are in tolerably good condition. His judgment is reinforced by the cables and memos that reach his desk. From a sheaf of papers, he will recite encouraging tidings from his military advisers, a favorable report from Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker on the South Vietnamese election campaign, a note from Jack Valenti assuring him of his popularity. Mrs. Johnson dropped in during one such discourse recently. "That's not what I read...
...things in this world appeal more to Lyndon Johnson than driving around his Texas ranch in an air-conditioned car with a sheaf of favorable public-opinion polls in his pocket. Last week the President was really living...
...appropriate assistant secretary, remembering that the assistant secretary may already have been wakened once before. Early in the morning, last night's take of cables is culled over, digested and circulated in innumerable copies, and several times during the day overflowing in-baskets are topped off with a new sheaf of paper...
From then on, Schlesinger scooped up information like a vacuum cleaner, recording everything on a sheaf of white 8-in. by 4-in. cards that he carried in an inside jacket pocket. On weekends he transferred his notes to white foolscap, eventually filled three black leatherette binders with nearly 400 single-spaced pages. He had intended to put them at Kennedy's disposal. Instead, they became the nucleus for his own book...