Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAUSES of the distribution breakdown aren't hard to trace. While the groups of Americans that live near sophisticated medical centers can tap the full bounty of medical technology, those trapped in isolated areas aren't able to share. The traditional social hierarchy operates in medical care, too: white Appalachians, black Alabamians, and slum dwellers of various tints all have disease and death rates high above the national average...
...tuning." Even some of the Federal Reserve System's twelve regional banks have been resisting the board. Last week the New York Federal Reserve Bank reported that its officers had disagreed with board policy all through 1968, usually favoring even higher interest rates than the board voted. Some White House economists and many bankers argue that the board's autonomy must be ended...
...prefer much less short-term monetary tinkering by the board. Like many others, he feels that the board would do better to pay more attention to developing long-term policies for steady economic growth. McCracken would also like to see the Reserve coordinate its policy more closely with the White House. He would probably not go as far as some former Johnson economists, who argue that the President should have something like veto power over the Federal Reserve's monetary moves. "If you can trust the President of the U.S with the atomic bomb," argues a Johnson Administration official...
...Presidents have taken to employing historians as personal aides, partly in the hope that they will be written up lovingly. Sometimes they are-witness Arthur Schlesinger's study of John F. Kennedy. And sometimes the joke is on the Chief Executive. Eric Goldman's bestselling memoir of White House life with Lyndon Johnson emphatically belongs in the latter category...
...view proved prophetic. Goldman's diplomatic effort came to total disaster at the famous June 1965 White House Festival of the Arts. Incensed by then about the Viet Nam war and always snobbishly intolerant of the presidential manner, a number of intellectuals noisily stayed away. Among those who did come, one guest-New York Critic Dwight Macdonald-cheekily circulated an anti-Johnson petition at the gathering. Another, John Hersey, chose to read pointed excerpts from his book Hiroshima despite fierce White House displeasure ("The President and I," said Mrs. Johnson, "do not want this man to come here...