Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Banner, Princeton University: "His Administration was a period of drift rather than mastery. There was a social revolution occurring, and Eisenhower was not aware of it. He left it to Kennedy and Johnson, who came almost too late. At the same time, it was Eisenhower and only Eisenhower who struck out at the military-industrial complex. That was the high point of his presidency...
...Frank Freidel, Harvard University, author of a multi-volume biography of F.D.R.: "He elected to retain Government responsibility for the welfare of the people. This was his most significant accomplishment. It is what made it possible for Kennedy and Johnson to move forward. If one of the right-wing group had been elected, Kennedy and Johnson would have had to spend a lot of time recouping. With the Eisenhower years as a plateau and a period of consolidation, it was possible to move forward in the Kennedy-Johnson years...
...doubts), Rogers wanted them back "as quickly as possible." Moreover, said Rogers, any settlement that required the U.S. to stay on in Viet Nam permanently-like that in Korea-would be "not desirable." The conditions for peace that Rogers outlined were substantially unchanged from those of the Johnson Administration. However, he acknowledged that Saigon's present attitude would be a "problem" in holding genuinely free elections...
...possibility of a suit against LTV has been under consideration since the last months of the Johnson Administration. Under its acquisitive founder, James J. Ling, Dallas-based LTV has grown since 1957 from a $4,000,000-a-year contracting company into the nation's 14th largest corporation, with sales last year of $2.8 billion. And its takeover last summer of Pittsburgh's J. & L.-whose sales of $900 million make it the nation's sixth largest steel producer -was the biggest conglomerate merger in history. J. & L. stock was selling for about $50 before the merger...
Like numerous Victorians, Lear was superficially normal and enviable. He kept a wonderful cat whom he immortalized under the preposterous name of Foss, as magical a literary companion in its way as Dr. Johnson's Hodge or Christopher Smart's Jeoffrey. He had enduring friends, including Tennyson and a man called Chichester Fortescue, a real name that sounds like a Lear invention. Lear's peregrinations over 30 years ranged from Calais to the coast of Coromandel, a course which enabled him to work at his art-essentially the trade of providing souvenirs of the Grand Tour...