Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system really...
...Laird, who was Nixon's military adviser during the campaign, reluctantly admitted that his boss was right on sufficiency-which to Laird was apparently synonymous with "superiority." To further that end, said Laird, the Nixon Administration would continue with the $5 billion-to-$10 billion Sentinel antiballistic missile system. Designed to ward off a primitive Chinese attack-but virtually useless against a heavy Russian assault-Sentinel, in Laird's view, would nonetheless be an important bargaining pawn when negotiations do start with the Soviets. Many Congressmen, who grudgingly agreed to the Johnson Administration's request for funds...
Drastic Reorganization. Nixon's anticrime package, culled from previous studies, drew attention to vital but neglected court and rehabilitation procedures. It called for drastic reorganization of the District of Columbia judicial system by providing a single municipal court to handle all normal litigation and criminal prosecution. This would help eliminate lengthy delays in felony cases that have hitherto been tried in federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon...
...Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall was never a man to think small. His last gesture before leaving office was to proclaim the addition of 7,500,000 acres to the National Parks System. That announcement proved to be premature when President Johnson turned down Udall's proposal and approved the allocation of a mere 384,500 acres. The public snub prompted the Secretary angrily to shout an offer of resignation to President Johnson over the telephone, an incident that Udall now greatly regrets...
Dulles presided over two major disasters during his tenure as director. One was the Russian capture of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers, which enabled Nikita Khrushchev to gain a propaganda victory over the U.S. (since then, a system of spy satellites initiated under Dulles has much surpassed the U-2s). The other was the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, which led at least indirectly to Dulles' retirement seven months later. Dulles took it all calmly. CIA directors, he said, were "expendable." He wrote: "Obviously you cannot tell of operations that go along well. Those that go badly generally...