Sublime

Moseley had become a surrogate for Fox Conner. In his eyes, Ike could do no wrong.

The first principle of any civilisation is orderly living and the rearing of the young.

The General Electric job was offered in May or June of 1935. On June 26, 1935, with Johnson about to accept the offer, President Roosevelt announced the creation of a new governmental agency. It would be called the National Youth Administration, its annual budget would be $50 million—and it would be administered in each state by a state director. T

The compassion, though genuine, had taken a back seat to calculation; the Texas journalist Ronnie Dugger, who covered Johnson for many years, was to write, in an incisive phrase, of his “real, though expendable, compassion.” In Johnson’s unending, silent calculations about the best way to further his career, it was the Alvin Wirtzes and the Herman

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Nasser was becoming increasingly influential as a leader of neutralist sentiment throughout the world—along with India’s Nehru and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. For Dulles, neutralism was heresy in the holy war against Communism.