Peter F. Drucker on Business and Society

CHAPTER SIX

American Directions

PRESIDENT JOHNSON CLEARLY hopes, and probably expects, that his administration will become another “Era of Good Feeling.” In his first major speech after the 1964 election he claimed that the country had reached a new “consensus on national purpose and policy,” and he forecast “a long age of constructiveness” in which all segments of the public would work together for the common good. What he hopes to get, obviously, is a modern counterpart of the original Era of Good Feeling that started in 1817 when President Monroe came into office (like LBJ) with overwhelming public support and a splintered, ineffectual opposition. ...