Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
NONFICTION 1. The 900 Days, Salisbury (1) 2. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(2) 3. The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman (4) 4. Thirteen Days, Kennedy (9) 5. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (3) 6. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (8) 7. Instant Replay, Kramer (5) 8. The Trouble with Lawyers, Bloom 9. The Day Kennedy Was Shot, Bishop (7) 10. The Intimate Enemy, Bach and Wyden...
This reflects Nixon's deliberate decision to move slowly, steadily and to cool down both the pace and the passions that characterized the last Johnson years. The Nixon Administration has yet to make several score major appointments. Far from "cleaning house in the State Department," as he promised during the campaign, Nixon has made fewer changes than John Kennedy did when he took over from a Republican Administration in 1961. There is no set of proposals that might be labeled the Nixon program. There is as yet no significant departure from Johnson policy in any major area...
...position on the anti-ballistic missile, but one that does not really settle the issue (see following story). The decision typifies his approach so far-somewhere between action and caution. As for Viet Nam, Nixon has not -so far as the public can see, anyway-moved from the Johnson Administration's policy. Casualties still run as high as 300 or 400 a week. Since peace talks began in Paris last May, more than 10,000 young Americans have been killed...
...first Safeguard bases would be a few miles south of the Canadian border, and since Chinese or Soviet ICBMs would come in over the North Pole, the nuclear-armed ABMs sent to intercept them would probably be detonated over Canada. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was kept posted of Lyndon Johnson's Sentinel plans, but he was not informed in advance of President Nixon's switch to Safeguard. In an emergency debate in Ottawa, Socialist Leader Tommy Douglas protested: "Canada is not a banana republic...