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...greater effort than any of his recent predecessors to shift more responsibility to the states and cities. He concedes that much of his domestic legislation has turned into a programmatic and bureaucratic nightmare that we frankly must face up to. Johnson has diffused certain federal powers to a wider extent than is generally recognized in the poverty war, with its 1,000-odd community-action programs; in the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities...
...haunting lament: "We gave her everything money could buy." That money can't buy love is one of pop music's hoariest cliches, but the Beatles well know that too many parents have reached that desperate extreme. In a day when the generation gap yawns ever wider, the Beatles get rich by singing that communication has supposedly ceased, that parents and children have become strangers to one another...
...around the world.† Given the morose mood of the moment, it was also understandable that many should reach the instant conclusion that Lyndon Johnson had dismissed McNamara out of hand, presumably to appease the generals whom the Secretary had held in check, and as a prelude to a wider war in Asia. Columnist Mary McGrory mourned "the last human barrier within the Government against the harsh and drastic steps recommended by the generals." Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said it was "ominous and scary." Another old New Frontiersman, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, conjectured that the Administration had yielded to the Joint...
When McGeorge Bundy left Washington last year to become head of the Ford Foundation, Lyndon Johnson lost a compelling voice for his policies of broadened foreign trade, a more realistic international monetary system, and wider, more willing U.S. investment abroad. Last week, addressing the International Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan, Bundy raised that voice again, arguing "The Case for Self-Confident Generosity in Trade, Money and Management." Excerpts...
...whose Outward Bound components and intense lecture schedules resembled Marine Boot Camps were more helpful by virtue of their strenuousness and difficulty. The Volunteers who endured them may have gained self-confidence that they could endure still other hazards. Moreover, Peace Corps training programs bring together Volunteers from a wider variety of backgrounds within the United States than most of them have encountered hitherto. Their first experience with "culture shock" may occur at the training site...