Word: consensus
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Nonetheless, there is a widespread consensus that new cathedrals and churches ought to be significantly different from the old. First, they should be much more adaptable-designed not just as places of worship but as buildings that could house a variety of Christian activities, from study centers to theaters. Secondly, they ought to be ecumenical in sponsorship...
Still, Viet Nam can hardly be held entirely responsible for the President's set-backs in the ephemeral but transcendently important area of public respect and support. Johnson could cultivate his consensus for only so long. Once he had to start assigning priorities, as every President eventually must, the politics of harmony had to give way to the politics of conflict and controversy...
Shakers v. Smoothers. Clinton Rossiter categorizes Presidents as either earthshakers or earth-smoothers. Johnson's emphasis on consensus and conciliation, his efforts to bring businessman and laborer, black and white, city dweller and dirt farmer into his big tent, all seem to mark him as a smoother...
Away from Consensus. At the moment, Johnson can hardly consider himself entrenched. The dump L.B.J. Democrats stand to his left, Alabama's George Wallace to his right, and a newly vigorous G.O.P. dead ahead. He has allowed the Democratic National Committee's once smooth machinery to rust. Indeed, whereas Lincoln's Cabinet complained that he carried his files around in the sweatband of his stovepipe hat, Johnson tries to carry the whole Democratic Party in his inside coat pocket. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara will soon be leaving him, and a debilitating exodus of top officials could follow...
...campaign approaches, the Man of the Year increasingly shows signs of a readiness to move away from consensus and toward leadership. He will have to, if he is going to cope with a host of social maladies that were but dimly perceived a decade ago. Whatever his shortcomings in terms of personality and performance, none but his most relentless critics can fault his desire to cope with those problems. The greatest Presidents are those who emerged during periods of severe strain, domestic or foreign. Johnson still has a chance to stand among them...