Word: consensus
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...Strove tirelessly to achieve a national consensus, adding two phrases-"Let us reason together" and "I want to be President of all the people"-to the American political lexicon. The consensus, of course, became his on Nov. 3, with the greatest electoral victory since 1936 and the largest percent (61%) of the popular vote ever...
Over the Arm. Nevertheless, if he is to achieve Rooseveltian results, Johnson is aware that he will eventually have to risk losing some elements of the great consensus he has forged. "There will be times," he has said, "when I'll have to make difficult decisions between busi ness and labor. I know that. You have to do these things...
Limited Mandate. Despite his over whelming election victory, Johnson has no grandiose ideas about the extent of his mandate. He considers it a limited one, directing him to steer a middle-road course. He sees his role as that of a catalyst through which a national consensus may develop. Toward that end he will continue to urge such diverse elements in the nation as business and labor, liberals and conservatives, to "reason together"-a technique that has largely accounted for his longtime political success...
...into excuse-making for tyrannies of the Soviet state, such as the confiscation of all private radio receivers or the summary street-corner execution of suspected civilian traitors. The most egregious example is his treatment of the controversy over the tragic Warsaw uprising in the summer of 1944. The consensus of Western historians holds that Stalin apparently held back the capture of that city until the anti-Communist Polish underground was destroyed by the Germans. After a seesawing summary of the argument, but without substantial new evidence, Werth chooses to agree for the most part with the official Soviet self...
...take some doing to maintain the momentum in 1965. Last week the Commerce Department predicted that capital spending in next year's first half will rise 8%, to an annual rate of $47.7 billion-a good gain, but not as great as this year's 14%. The consensus of economists is that the gross national product, which rose 6.7% this year, is due for an advance of some 5% next year, to $655 billion. While that might seem satisfactory, it would neither significantly increase corporate profits nor reduce unemployment...