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...When you start talking Presidential politics, you just divide," Nixon chanted as he shook his finger at me. Just the syllables that make up "1968" brought a faint smile to his face, as if to say "you're not going to catch me this time." But it came out as, "I'm only looking to 1966. It's imperative we gain in Congress. I'd say we can get 40 seats in the House." Then--still smoothly--he revealed himself: "I'm going to have a full schedule in '66. I'll devote a lot of time to it." Without...
...Feel Great." In the next two days, Johnson maintained a pace that might have put many a younger man in hospital. He shook hundreds of hands, spoke thousands of words, kept so many appointments that the mimeographed White House schedule of daily activities began to read like the Yellow Pages. Warned one concerned visitor: "Mr. President, you're not going to be in condition for the operation if you keep going like this." Lyndon looked miffed. "I feel great," he said...
...strolled over and shook Dunsky's hand aferwards. Boy, was Dunsky happy, Hewlett-Dunsky battle caught the spectators' (and the sportswriters') eyes, little way back of the leaders, Crimson captain Dave Allen and Huskie junior Bill Kneeland were waging a private duel of their...
Writer Ed Shook was a city boy in the farm country, worked from time to time on a farm in southern Missouri, did his share of agricultural reporting as a staffer on the Kansas City Star. Reporter Art White was a town boy in city territory (Orange, N.J.) who has what might be called a consuming interest in agriculture. After one magnificent dinner at the Shuman farm, both White and his subject had to suspend the interview for an afternoon nap. Researcher Pat Gordon, who comes from Houston and remembers pleasant vacations on her grandfather's ranch in western...
What Shuman can claim overwhelming credit for is the defeat of the 1963 nationwide wheat referendum, which shook the Kennedy Administration to its socks. It was the Gettysburg of the war between farmer and bureaucrat-and Shuman was its General Meade. The referendum's Robert E. Lee was Willard Cochrane, then Freeman's director of agricultural economics, a tough-minded theoretician whose ideas proved politically unacceptable...