THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT

a group of more self-interested "movers and shakers.'
WQ AUTUMN 1991
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Max Holland

n August 1964, presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy wrote Lyndon Johnson a spare but revealing memorandum. The Republicans had just nominated Barry Goldwa- ter in San Francisco, rejecting if
not humiliating the Rockefeller-led, inter- nationalist wing of the party. Bundy sensed a golden opportunity for LBJ to court the "very first team of businessmen, bankers, et al." orphaned politically by Gol...

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