Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aside, Ward stated a problem that has plagued the President all along, and now threatens to overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy and old Joe Kennedy, who last week turned 78-yet he somehow seems much closer in outlook to the older...
...allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary John Connor and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner. Postmaster General Larry...
...cities, the "urban guerrillas," of whom Mallin estimates there are at least 500 professionals in Saigon alone, seldom dare to attack an American or Vietnamese official on the streets, prefer to roll a grenade into a crowded bar or toss a plastic bomb into a teeming marketplace. The purpose is to erode confidence in the government's ability to provide protection and to try to "discourage business activity, cause investment capital to flee and, in general, to undermine the economy...
...sloganeering militants who have taken over S.N.C.C. and the Congress of Racial Equality deride the older, moderate leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League and Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference as "Uncle Toms" and "white niggers." S.N.C.C. has called the N.A.A.C.P. not only reactionary but "one of the main roadblocks to black freedom." Dr. King is denounced with increasing viciousness by the militants, who claim that he has entered into a secret pact with the "white Establishment...
Dissident elements in both the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League, on the other hand, have accused their leaders of moving too slowly and becoming puppets of the Johnson Administration. At the Urban League's convention in Philadelphia, David Rusk, 25, son of Secretary of State Dean Rusk and an associate director of the Washington, D.C., league, emerged as a leader of a militant faction, challenged the league to be "unreasonable" in its demands for the Negro in the ghetto. "How much do you have to show your 'black bourgeoisie' board member," asked Rusk, "before he decides that...