BREAKS THROUGH WHITE HOUSE WINDOW ©
“When Lyndon Johnson took over Kennedy's desk, he swore that he would carry on the "New Frontier." Johnson has kept his word, In fact, displaying true pioneer spirit, he has enlarged and expanded on the Kennedy heritage.
The new pinnacle was achieved February 4 when Johnson announced the appointinent of Dr, Eric F. Goldman as a White House consultant. Goldmants "main job" will be to bring in new ideas from wherever he. can find them, This, Johnson's aides announced, is a Tunique approach to channel the nation's best thinking to the White House." Johnson "wants to insure a wide-open window for new ideas." He "doesntt want a good idea not to reach the proper hands,"
In keeping with Johnson's sweeping vision, Goldman’ is to serve without pay. To earn his bread and butter, he will continue teaching history at Princeton,
Herets our "good idea" this week for the open window: Put Goldman in touch with Herman Kahn and his staff of 35 at Hudson Institute, who are running a "think factory" -- at a cost to the U.S. government of $1,000,000 a year == to systematically explore all possible outcomes of the nuolear arms race,
Some remarkable ideas have been fathered in the "think factory." For instance, in 1961 Kahn said that if he were given $10,000,000,000, he would, in’ less than ten years, build a "doomsday machine which "4? detonated would destroy everything in the world,"
There's an idea for Goldman to marvel at as he leans out of that window in the White House on his days off from Princeton!
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