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Framing his resolution so that it would lay the groundwork for similar legislation on space agencies, he sounded out Democrats and Republicans alike for reaction. Last week, when G.O.P. leaders discovered what he had in mind, they hotfooted it to the White House, warned that Johnson was about to capture another popular issue just as he had captured defense preparedness...
...chill. Their reasons: 1) to permit the doctors to recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached him in a Paris hotel lobby, Jim Hagerty wept...
...fine as his gentle wife. But Playwright John Vlahos never crystallized in a dramatic moment just why the minister surrendered to a tranquil life and moved off to a home for the aged where his friends "sit like potted plants." As a result, Vlahos did not lay the groundwork that could have built power into a touching last scene in which Tone, finally accepting the fate his years have brought, sang a hymn to God in an empty church...
They discussed this during a 70-minute White House meeting to lay the groundwork for Eisenhower's conference starting tomorrow with British Prime Minister Macmillan...
...forces him to commute across oceans to keep his weekly date on Person to Person. By the time the show's technicians have torn their five tons of equipment out of a visited celebrity's home, Murrow may be on a plane to Washington to lay the groundwork for a new See It Now or closeted in a projection room to edit film for one already in work. At the end of a routine day's conferring, writing, filming or reporting, he must also make his nightly radio deadline-"This [pause] is the news." Murrow has little...