Carter before his so-called, "Malaise, " speech invited a few dozen intellectuals to Camp David, among them Christopher Lasch, then still an unorthodox Freudian neo-marxist.(One of the chapters in his best seller The Culture of Narcissism had been published in Marxist Perspectives.)
And LBJ, was told off by Eartha Kitt, Dwight Macdonald, Robert Lowell and others, over Vietnam at the W.H. in '66 or '67.
-- Michael Pugliese