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...rash statement of policy--whether favorable or unfavorable to the sanctuary. By doing so, he would have seemed emotional and impulsive and done a serious disservice to the Divinity School and to himself. Stendahl's single positive decision, to appoint a six-member faculty committee to serve as liaison with the students, was also correct...
Both Kennedy and Johnson highly valued O'Brien's skills as a political diplomatist and used him as their liaison officer with the often fractious Congress. Some have argued, with only slight exaggeration, that O'Brien is responsible for passage of the bulk of New Frontier and Great Society legislation. Even after Johnson rewarded him with the postmaster-generalship in 1965, O'Brien continued his liaison work on the Hill...
Wilted Face. Two months later, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson approached Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in London with L.B.J.'s approval. The P.M. handed the Russian a note, prepared with the help of a White House liaison man, proposing a bombing halt (phase A) to be followed, after a face-saving interval, by mutual de-escalation (phase B). Kosygin had boarded a train to Scotland when Johnson abruptly decided that the proposed interval was too long. The embarrassed Wilson was forced to chase Kosygin down with a new proposal...
...Using accepted practice on the second day, we isolated the area, reasoning that the rioters would riot themselves out and go home. So what happened? Other riots broke out in other areas." In the end, the insurrection encompassed a region roughly the size of San Francisco. There was little liaison with other agencies, particularly the National Guard, and commanders often could not communicate with patrol cars because their radios operated on different frequencies...
...called "my second home." Johnson dispatched him to Puerto Rico in April 1965 as a secret go-between to the exile government of the Dominican Republic. Under the assumed name of J. B. Davidson, Fortas established an office in the Governor's summer home and set up a liaison between Johnson and Juan Bosch, the Dominican ex-President. Later, J. B. Davidson helped arrange the Republic's free elections. As one of Johnson's personal lawyers, Fortas also drew up the trust arrangement that regulates the Johnson fortune...