Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wondering how many hungry people could be fed with the half-million dollars it will cost the taxpayers for Millionaire ex-President Johnson's first year of retirement...
...Breakthroughs. The European tour is both good international tactics and sensible domestic strategy. Europeans were outspokenly dismayed by Lyndon Johnson's preoccupation with Asia at the expense of older Atlantic allies. Nixon's trip will counter that impression, perhaps inspire new purpose in NATO, and probably advance a Franco-American rapprochement. At home, the President can hardly expect a sudden breakthrough in the overweening problems of racial discord and dissent about the Viet Nam war. Europe is the area in which he can best hope to make some quick and perhaps dramatic progress...
...long the national press dealt with Wallace only in order to denigrate him--not seeking to explain why he attracted the type of support that he did. For many weeks following McCarthy's Granite State victory, many columnists continued to say that the vote was based on Johnson's personality rather than on the war. Greater emphasis on non-personality-oriented reportage might have cleared up issues like this. David Broder in the Washington Post was one of the few reporters to do this kind of work and during the fall, the TV networks began to pay attention...
Unfortunately, Halberstam glosses over large parts of the campaign which were extremely important -- Johnson's withdrawal, for instance. He does manage to get outside of the press bus in his limited description of the campaign, though...
...mentions the change in graduate school deferments or the gold crisis, or the military heavy-handedness at Khe Sanh, all of which led to a significant change in public opinion during the months of February and March. These helped set the stage for McCarthy's New Hampshire victory and Johnson's withdrawal...