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The friends of the administration, which in 1964 meant most of the nation, were jubilant. It was much later that Morse’s prophetic words were recalled: I believe that history will record that we have made a great mistake in subverting and circumventing the Constitution of the United States… by means of this resolution. As I argued earlier today at great length, we are in effect giving the President… warmaking powers in the absence of a declaration of war. I believe that to be a historic mistake. Johnson signed the document the day it was passed, August 7. Eight months later he told a group of visitors with a grin, “For all I know our Navy was shooting at whales out there.”
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
After I built the first trailer in 1963, I was constantly looking for new ideas, new ways to get the customers excited about Portillo’s. My mind never slept. Every time I created something different, something different that I knew the customers liked, I saw the smile on their faces. And when I saw that my ideas were working, as crazy as they were, thinking out-of-the-box, I gained more confidence in myself, and it gave me more passion. My passion and confidence grew.
Out of the Dog House
Dick Portillo, Don Yaeger
This was the record and song that’d take me my farthest into the pop mainstream. I was always of two minds about big records and the chance involved in engaging a mass audience. You should be. There’s risk. Was the effort of seeking that audience worth the exposure, the discomfort of the spotlight and the amount of life that’d be handed over? What was the danger of dilution of your core message, your purpose, the reduction of your best intentions to empty symbolism or worse? On “Born in the USA,” I experienced all these things, but that audience can also let you know how powerful and durable your music might be, and its potential impact upon your fans’ lives and the culture. So you take those steps tenderly, until you reach the chasm, and then you jump, for there is no steadily inclining path to the big big time. There is always that engulfing abyss where each traveler measures his next move, questions his motives.
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
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