Johnson and <i>Newsweek, 1963–68</i>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Samuelson did advise Kennedy’s successor as President, Lyndon Johnson, but his involvement was much less than it had been with Kennedy. His activity in the public sphere increasingly focused on writing for the public. Most well known is his involvement with Newsweek, for which he wrote a column every third week alongside Milton Friedman and Henry Wallich, but by then he had already been a regular columnist on the Washington Post. After discussing these activities, the chapter focuses on the evolution of Samuelson’s thinking on two major issues: the escalating war in Indochina and the role of the state in economic activity.</jats:p>