Word: sions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back of the myth, says Kraft, lies the reality: reporters competing feverishly to put across their highly selective ver sion of the news, shaped, inevitably, to their own prejudices and predilections. It is when the Government objects to their version that reporters raise the banner of the free press, elevating what is merely a political squabble into a "generalized and historic clash based on universal principles...
...year's presidential campaign headed the Citizens for Johnson and Humphrey organization. But Cook decided that he did not want to become Treasury Secretary; he had already spent 16 years in public service, and he figured that was enough. There were other explanations for his reluctance: his pen sion would suffer; Treasury's top job pays only $35,000 a year compared with Cook's present salary of $135,000; his wife does not like Washington...
...Chiefs arrived, Filipino stewards set ashtrays, note pads and pencils (five black and two red for each Chief) round the hexagonal, Formica-topped table that is the room's centerpiece. Behind a sliding panel on one wall were maps of countries and areas scheduled to come under discus sion. On another wall was a screen for use in showing slides to accompany staff presentations. Also in the room were a 23-in. television set and six tele phones, one of them a direct line to the White House. Aides placed at each Chiefs place a large briefcase filled with...
...total, if benevolent control over the entire operation. And although for the past few years nearly everyone in the Digest's red brick colonial building in Chappaqua, N.Y., 30 miles north of Manhattan, knew that Wally and Lila had picked their successor, everyone also wondered whether the succes sion would ever take place...
...Commerce Secretary, Connor will head up an awkwardly diversified department that has 33,538 employees, operates on a $4.5 billion budget, and includes the Bureau of the Census, Patent Office, Bureau of Public Roads, Weather Bureau and Area Redevelopment Administration. But the true mis sion of the Secretary of Commerce cannot be written into an organization chart. In its simplest terms, it is to promote confidence in the Administration among businessmen. That is something at which President Johnson himself works almost full time, and he is awfully good at it. In John Connor, the President should have an able helper...