Word: texan
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...needed was to split the last two singles. But Emerson routed Ralston, and the pressure was on McKinley. He lost the first set to Newcombe, 10-12, bounded back to win the second, 6-2. Again the Texan faltered; again he rallied-from a 0-3 deficit to a 9-7 victory. Then, leaning into his serve, McKinley blasted the young Aussie right off the court, 6-2-and the delirious Americans tenderly packed the Davis Cup for its long voyage...
...seemed hardly the thing for one Texan to do to another. But President Johnson went right ahead and handed to Thomas C. Mann, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, what has come to be considered the most miserable job in Washington: Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Yet in choosing Mann, 51, Johnson did what most previous Presidents only talked about-he provided the power and backing needed if things are to get done...
...Another Texan whom Johnson vastly admires is Robert Anderson, 53, who was one of the first men he saw after taking over (see U.S. BUSINESS). Still another high-caliber Johnson favorite is Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, 46, a West Virginian who worked between 1957 and 1960 as special counsel for up-and-coming Lyndon Johnson's Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance is the odds-on choice to succeed Manhattan Lawyer Roswell Gilpatric as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Likely to follow Vance as Army Secretary is Assistant Navy Secretary Kenneth BeLieu, 49, a former staff director for that same subcommittee...
...Fellow Texan and onetime Accountant Walter W. Jenkins, 45, has been closer to Johnson longer than anyone else on his personal staff. Jenkins joined Johnson in 1939, only two years after he was elected to Congress, and quickly became his top administrative aide. He performed as political watchdog and personnel manager, answered Johnson's mail and mined assiduously for information to keep Johnson briefed. A Johnson friend remarked in the campaign days of 1960, "He is the one man who can hold L.B.J. together. The Senator talks with him an hour a day no matter where...
Aside from his longtime advocacy of tariff cutting (the U.S. "cannot be protectionist and prosperous"), Johnson is not known for strong expressions of economic philosophy. Much of his economic counsel in the past has come from fairly conservative businessmen and advisers. Among them: Robert Anderson, a Texan who was Dwight Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary and is now a limited partner of Wall Street's Loeb, Rhoades; George Brown, president of Houston's Brown & Root, one of the world's largest building contractors; and Manhattan's Edwin Weisl, a wealthy corporate lawyer and Johnson...