Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cloakroom & Corridor. In Sidey's view, Johnson has never fully comprehended the difference between legislative and executive power, and his Administration has suffered for it. As Senate Majority Leader, he developed "a box-score mentality"-a sort of "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many bills did you pass today?" approach that emphasized statistics at the expense of inspiration. His greatest failing, however, has been in the art of communicating. "Language may be the most important tool that a President has for governing this sprawling nation," says Sidey, and while Johnson is superbly versed in the arcane language of cloakroom...
...Minutes. ABC thus was first on the screen-at 12:19-with wobbly video tape from the murder scene. CBS's Roger Mudd, in the ballroom during the shooting, was alerted by a man who tore wildly out of the kitchen corridor, put his finger up to his head like a pistol and yelled, "Bang, bang, bang!" "That turned my stomach," recalls Mudd. He and his crew then tore their camera off the tripod and plunged into the corridor. It was a standard film camera, and so was NBC's. By the time CBS and NBC got their...
...crowd-black and white-applauded as the mayor of Boston walked down the city-hall corridor. "I understand," he said with a wink, "that some of you want to see me." On some days it seems as if everyone in Boston wants to see Kevin White, who has managed to temper the austere efficiency of his predecessor with urbanity and charm...
...Sack Savoy. To reach them you must take a small, antiquated elevator, with a hand-operated grate and an erratic control button. It climbs slowly, cautiously--rather like the temperamental lift that displayed more personality than Julie Andrews in Thoroughly Modern Millie. The elevator opens--hopefully--onto a nondescript corridor. You pass a press room, then a secretary's office. The inner sanctum is a large room that, despite its heavy furniture, appears empty. There is an imposing mahogany desk, a matching conference table, an antique, roccoco grandfather's clock. The room is a flashback to a past generation...
Last August, when Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach imprudently told the Foreign Relations Com mittee that Johnson did not need any congressional declaration to conduct the war, McCarthy stormed out of the hearing. "This is the wildest testimony I ever heard," he told a newsman in the corridor. "There is only one thing to do -take it to the country...