Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York. Last week nearly 4,000 guests crowded into four ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria for a banquet in his honor, and piles of gifts, letters and telegrams spilled across his office desks at 452 Madison Avenue. In part, the tributes came because Spellman is a genuinely warm and kindly man, a gregarious and sociable prelate whose gentle smile and sly Irish wit can charm Presidents as well as plumbers. But there was also the respect paid to an administrative genius whose record can be measured in construction bills and concrete growth...
Wish for the Whatnots. The President was at his crowd-pleasing best when he spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington's Constitution Hall. He loosed a flock of his favorite yarns (see box), and got a warm reception even while needling the businessmen: "All of you feel sorry for yourselves now-all of you have a martyr complex, and all of you think you are mistreated." Ticking off his Administration's economic accomplishments, he cried: "I came here this morning because I want you to be a part of this Administration, of this Government, whether...
...Astruc is a spelunker, always on the lookout for potholes to pop into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
...Attitude. Above and beyond all this spring growth was the warm breeze from Washington. The President of the U.S. went before the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see THE NATION) and spent a chatty hour appealing for an end to suspicion and distrust between Government and business. After the speech, Harvey Aluminum President Lawrence Harvey said: "This signals a new attitude on the part of bureaucrats-business is your friend, work with it." Businessmen believe that Johnson thinks the way they think, point out that he is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have had successful...
...business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.*I can promise you that if you are diligent in your business, this President will always be pleased to stand with you-anywhere, any time." This sort of talk made most businessmen, even Republicans, feel warm all over...