Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...36th President of the U.S. and the man who will be No. 37 are two of the most pugnacious politicians of their generation. Yet both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon seemed determined last week to avoid the rancor that has so often accompanied the transfer of power...
Junior Keith Colburn crossed the line 26 seconds later in eighteenth place with teammate Tom Spengler a stride behind. Harvard captain Doug Hardin finished a disappointing 36th, and senior Tim McLoone closed out the scoring total with 45th. Royce Shaw and Jon Enscoe were 53rd and 73rd, respectively...
...this sprightly study of the 36th President of the U.S., Author Hugh Sidey demonstrates that Johnson has been more than just possessive in his conduct of the office-he has been frequently devious, overbearing and suspicious as well. "What are you trying to do to me?" he cried once, when an aide had failed him. "Everybody is trying to cut me down, destroy me." Incongruously, there has also been an almost pathetic yearning for affection. "The most stimulating thing in my kind of work," he once said, "is the feeling that the people care about me." Sidey is TIME...
...shall not seek and I will not^accept the nomination of my party. . . ." Thus on nationwide television this week, almost as a throwaway line, in one of the most painful speeches that he has ever delivered to the American people, did the 36th President of the U.S. declare his intention to bow out of the ] presidential race. Lyndon Johnson's decision to retire from office, coming as a surprise climax to a surprise speech on Vietnam, gave the President's newly-stated conditions for ending the war the kind of impact that his own intended departure from...
LYNDON JOHNSON often likens his own problems to Lincoln's, and indeed the 16th and the 36th Presidents have many in common: a long, frustrating war, a divided homefront, and national doubts about presidential leadership. There is one even more striking similarity: though the North was vastly superior to the South in nearly everything that should have brought early victory, four years were required to bring about Lee's sur render at Appomattox. However, unlike Lincoln, who tested-and found wanting-more than half a dozen generals before he found a winner in Grant, Lyndon Johnson...