Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Office Success. It was one of the ironies of the transition period that while the lower levels of government awaited new superiors and unknown policy guidelines, Nixon was nonetheless making himself felt at the top. On Viet Nam, particularly, he acted almost as a coPresident, assisting the Johnson Administration in bringing Saigon into the expanded Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD). He scrupulously observed his pledge to act in concert with Lyndon Johnson on foreign affairs from November through January...
Rock musicians are the bastard offspring of Horatio Alger, just as the hip movement is the enfant naturel of the middle class. The success ethic, entrepreneurial impulse, and belligerent independence of the robber barons are stamped indelibly in their acid-mutated genes as surely as in Lyndon Johnson's. The musicians wanted to make it, but the only possible way seemed to be to deny that they wanted to make it. All the accoutrements of the hip life in rock were reminders that you were first and foremost a Beautiful Person, with loyalties not to entertainment but to other Beautiful...
DURING THE Wisconsin primary last March, I drove out to Milwaukee along with two other CRIMSON reporters to cover Senator McCarthy's campaign. It was during that strange time after New Hampshire when Kennedy had just come in and Johnson wasn't yet out, and the bitter clarity of our own relationship to the nation at war was melting like the dirty snow beside the highway...
...along to see what it was like. This was well before anyone was talking about learning to live with Nixon, and to me the Nixon campaign appeared as a dark crusade of the cynical right. The point of the Wisconsin primary was to give McCarthy a chance to beat Johnson, and it seemed absurd that Nixon had even come to Wisconsin...
...itself. Its impact on the world outside is scattered, usually punitive, petty. It looks after its own, and its own interests bear no particular relation to those of the nation. It is moribund, inward-looking, private. Its heroes are its defenders--men like Sam Rayburn, Carl Hayden, and Lyndon Johnson. On Tuesday night one of its heroes came back, back where he belonged