Word: frugality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they." But so far in the present presidential contest, they have done no noticeable kingmaking. For one thing, they have had the strong feeling that neither John Kennedy nor Lyndon Johnson was likely to be defeated by any Republican. For another, they rather like Lyndon, especially his frugal fiscal positions. For still another, they have tended to underrate Goldwater's volunteer strength and to overrate the possibility that Barry would somehow beat himself...
...President's aim was to convince Congress that his Administration will be frugal. As he revealed the big surprises of his speech, he stared straight out at such economy-minded legislators as Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck. The fiscal 1965 budget that Johnson will send to Congress next week, he said slowly and stressing every word, will "call for total expenditures of $97.9 billion-compared to $98.4 billion for the current year, a reduction of more than $500 million. It will call for new obligational authority of $103.8 billion -a reduction...
...Prickly Pear. Goldwater continued at a Portsmouth press conference the next day: "My experience with the President in the Senate does not cause me to be impressed by his frugal tendencies." He predicted that Johnson would be "the highest-spending President" in U.S. history, and quipped that the only promise Johnson had not held out to the U.S. was "to make the prickly pear* the national fruit...
Addressing the New York state legislature, Nelson Rockefeller sounded every bit as frugal as Lyndon Johnson. Urging fiscal austerity, Rocky promised a balanced budget with "no increase in taxes." Otherwise, his message had a preoccupied air to it, sounding to Albany's Knickerbocker News like "a last-minute fill-in by someone who is going away for a while...
...then chartered it for twice the price. He has not stopped since. Now a youthful-looking 66, D. K. Ludwig is the world's biggest individual ship operator, commanding a tanker fleet that can carry 2,500,000 tons. As if that were not enough the lean, frugal and publicity-shy Ludwig mines salt in Mexico, refines oil in Panama, raises cattle in Venezuela. He is worth $350 million-give or take $100 million...