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Lyndon Johnson, who likes his staffmen to keep their mouths shut and stay out of sight unless he personally deputizes them to speak and be seen in public, has shown his trust by ungagging Rostow and allowing him to surface publicly from his office in the White House basement. He sent Rostow to Los Angeles last week to participate in the supersensitive briefings on Viet Nam before the Governors' Conference, permitted him to appear on CBS's Face the Nation to wrestle with newsmen's questions about the stepped-up bombing. Rostow joined Johnson and others...
...Commerce Secretary Hodges. Mills's reasoning: the State Department is not popular in the House; starting off with State would emphasize the foreign relations aspects of the trade bill, intensify normal congressional wariness. Starting off with Commerce would put stress on the businesslike and business-benefiting aspects. Presidential staffmen sided with Mills, but Ball refused to yield. The result was a tense stalemate that ended abruptly when the President stepped in and handed down a verdict: Hodges first, then Ball...
Scene: a large corner office in a building set in lonely splendor on the site of the old New York World's Fair of 1939-40. President Robert Moses (called R.M. by his aides) is at his round desk-table. Rimmed around it are neatly dressed staffmen, their mouths at the ready in case R.M. says something that calls for a quick laugh. R.M. tilts back in his chair, scoops up some peanuts from a silver bowl, drops a few into his mouth, brushes a husk from his tie, and jerks a thumb toward a sign on the wall...
...brought to bear on Congressmen by the liberal lobbies that abound in Washington-notably that of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., under its own able legislative man, Andy Biemiller. When Administration legislative interests coincide with those of a particular lobbying group, O'Brien makes certain that one of his staffmen compares notes and coordinates efforts with the lobbyists. Intelligence is exchanged, a list is made of Congressmen whose votes might be swayed, and high-tempo lobbying techniques, ranging from direct-mail campaigns to carefully arranged visits from constituents, are turned on the solons...
...designed by Gropius and his partners in The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, Mass. For West Berlin, T.A.C. had plans for a huge housing project (40,880 people) with shopping center and school. In Boston there will be the T.A.C.-designed $25 million Federal Building. In Athens 300 U.S. embassy staffmen were settling into their new columned building on Vassilissis Sofi-as Street. All in all, it seemed as if Walter Gropius had become "everybody's baby...