Word: prote
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Report in Pocket. Everything came together for Lyndon Johnson on the USIA appropriation. First, USIA Chief Arthur Larson was Ike's proteègè and a pet whipping boy for Old Guard Republicans because he had written a book, A Republican Looks at His Party, and coined what they considered a personally obnoxious phrase, "Modern Republicanism." That was fine with Lyndon; he could use Larson to point up the Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack...