Word: consensus
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...consensus was that RGA should recommend that interhouse at Radcliffe be available more often than twice a week and that the meals include either Wednesday night dinner or Sunday lunch...
...liberalism of the Congress leaves the President in a felicitous position. Lyndon Johnson, unlike John F. Kennedy, will not often have to expend his political capital in leading liberal assaults in Congress. The President can have the advantages of appealing to a national consensus and the assurances that the Congress will enact his liberal program...
...Toward a Consensus. He really need not have worried, for one of his best, and most often misconstrued, talents is in smoothing off the rough edges of controversy, bringing antagonists together and achieving a consensus...
...great tasks of political leadership," he said last spring at the University of Texas, "to make our people aware that they share a fundamental unity of interest, purpose and belief. I intend to try and achieve a broad national consensus which can end obstruction and paralysis and liberate the energies of the nation for the work of the future...
Making the Mare Run. With his instinctive political sense, Johnson began seeking that consensus at once. His prime target was the nation's businessmen, estranged from the Kennedy Administration by the battle with Big Steel. Johnson thought Kennedy had overreacted in that case, just as he thought that F.D.R. had blundered badly in attacking big-businessmen as "economic royalists" a quarter-century earlier. Johnson catered to businessmen at White House luncheons, flattered them, assured them that they were "what makes the mare...