Word: staff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downtown Austin, the ninth floor of a new federal office-building complex is listed only as "Secret Service," but in fact it includes a luxurious suite of offices for L.B.J., a staff and about a dozen Secret Service agents still assigned to the ex-President. One uniformed agent sits in the lobby with an eleven-button telephone; no one gets past him without an appointment. Johnson either flies into Austin by Air Force helicopter, landing on the roof, or drives in his Lincoln Continental. Federal employees are finding parking spots in the basement garage increasingly hard to come...
...Crickett," as everyone calls her, did volunteer work in her home town of Philadelphia during John Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, was signed on to Robert Kennedy's staff in 1967 to answer mail from children-a task she performed with engaging touches of whimsy. Age 23, barely five feet tall, with red hair, she enjoyed playing with the Kennedy brood at Hickory Hill. Like the other girls from the "boiler room," she was shattered by Bobby Kennedy's death, seemed to snap out of her melancholy only considerably later, after she began working for the Kennedy...
...having something else in her life besides working for Robert Kennedy. For some of the younger girls, that was all there was." Esther's mother is a former Democratic National Committeewoman from Connecticut. Esther worked for the Senate subcommittee on government reorganization before she joined R.F.K.'s staff in 1968. She now assists the vice president of the Urban Institute in Washington...
...uniformed chiefs, the decline of Systems Analysis was the ultimate symbol of the military's renewed prestige. The office was viewed in that light because Mc-Namara gave it the responsibility for the first and most important review of goals and plans originated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the course of that review, Systems Analysis was often able to originate policy. Under Laird's table of organization, the three military services will get first crack at revising and refining the Joint Chiefs' plan. The new arrangement has the effect of increasing the responsibility of the three civilian service...
...many odd details-such as the swim to Edgartown-unexplained. In private, Kennedy also marvels that anyone could imagine him so stupid as to attend a sex orgy in his own state, accompanied by a middle-aged chauffeur and girls from his own and his late brother's staff...