Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
...TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON, by Eric F. Goldman. Instant history, like instant coffee, can sometimes be remarkably palatable. At least it is in this memoir by a former White House aide who sees L.B.J. as "an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances...
Great Grandmother Sir: Re "Israel's New Premier" [March 14]: I resent your necessity to refer to the leader of a nation as "the 70-year-old grandmother." Did you ever refer to Johnson by saying "so said the grandfather," or to Konrad Adenauer as "the 90-year-old grandfather...
...While we believe in freedom of speech and expression, we are not about to let the University be used by subversives and revolutionaries," Erwin declared when barring SDS. Erwin, a friend of President Johnson's, serves also as a Democratic National Committee man from Texas...
...Great White Hope -- James Earl Jones' performance as black prize-fighter Jack Johnson is awe-inspiring--and makes a visit to this production worthwhile. But the play (by Howard Sackler) is generally awful and sometimes offensive -- unfocused, full of wretched excesses, and sociologically more pertinent to the forties than the sixties. Edwin Sherin's direction isn't much either, nor is the supporting cast--with the exception of Lou Gilbert as a much-tormented manager. At the ALVIN, W. 52nd...