Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walnut-paneled White House office, Lawrence Francis O'Brien held a hurried conference with his aides. He had been warned by Vice President Lyndon Johnson that an important Southern Senator was wavering on an Administration bill. "See what you can do with him," O'Brien told a staffer. Then, as the meeting broke up, O'Brien turned to his telephone and called another Senator to thank him for a favorable vote the previous week. "I didn't want you to think we didn't notice and appreciate what you did," said O'Brien...
...sportswriter whose head is not turned by the luminaries of sport and whose typewriter does not print in purple ink, Jim Murray, 42, onetime Los Angeles Examiner, TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staffer, is a prime example of the new look in sportswriting. Since the days when Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler, Ring Lardner and Grantland Rice turned sportswriting into an art (and drew the best pay in newspapering for it), their imitators have filled the nation's sports pages with some of the worst-and occasionally some of the best-overwriting in journalism. This encouraged the notion, said Stanley Walker...
...Government, Dillon works within the roomy confines of the largest peacetime budget in history-$87.7 billion. But unlike most of his Treasury Department predecessors, Dillon does not consider himself simply a watchdog of the taxpayer's dollar. "He believes in good housekeeping," says a Treasury staffer, "not just to admire the house, but in order to utilize it.'' To Dillon, the U.S. economy is a dynamic weapon in the cold war, an arsenal of dollars that must be strategically employed against world poverty to halt the spread of Communism. Under Doug Dillon, the staid U.S. Treasury...
Dillon made a doubtful start as a diplomat. "Whenever a difficult problem came up." recalls one former embassy staffer, "he got a cold in the head." But as France's problems-notably in Indo-China and with the European Defense Community-grew worse, Dillon stepped up to the challenge of his assignment. He and Phyllis spent an hour daily with a French tutor; within weeks Dillon was visiting the Quai d'Orsay without an interpreter. In a social swim where lavish entertainment was a matter of courses...
...brilliant." His coverage of Kennedy is more complete, more successful than his picture of Nixon. Nor was it entirely his fault: Nixon kept to himself, and his campaign staff was hostile to the press. White sums up a prevalent attitude toward the reporters with a quotation from a Nixon staffer: "Stuff the bastards. They're all against Dick anyway. Make them work-we're not going to hand out prepared remarks. Let them use their pencils and get out and take notes...