January 1969 Issue [Article] The White House and the intellectuals Download PDF Adjust Share by Eric Frederick Goldman, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags 20th century Art and state Arts Dwight Macdonald Eric Frederick Goldman John Hersey Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson Mark Van Doren Political aspects Public opinion Robert Lowell United States Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 White House Festival of the Arts (Washington, D.C.) More from Eric Frederick Goldman Good-by to the ‘fifties–and good riddance The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history--but why didn't anybody laugh? Adjust Share