Word: johnson
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...into so much trouble. While zealous agents sometimes overstepped legal limits, the agency more often took the rap for activities that were ordered or approved by higher authorities. The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion was approved by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is still debated whether Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists. In Chile, the CIA gave money and other help to opponents of Marxist Salvador Allende...
Policymakers sometimes fail to use sound intelligence when it is offered. President Johnson disregarded the discouraging CIA reports on Viet Nam; they were not what he wanted to hear. The White House rejected CIA warnings of a Middle East war in 1973. Why would the Arabs want to start a war they could not win? reasoned the policymakers. It did not occur to them that the Arabs could win something just by fighting better than they had the last time...
...Arbenz the following year headed off threats of Communist takeovers and stabilized conditions to the benefit of the Western world. Other operations were more dubious. In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in 1961 by rebels supplied with guns by CIA agents. The ensuing chaos forced President Johnson to send in the Marines four years later. Notes New York University Law Professor Thomas Franck: "By using dirty tricks that backfired, we set ourselves up as the universal scapegoat for every disaster caused by either God or incompetent governments...
After a foul shot, Curry found the hoop again with three minutes left in the period. Buckets by Gia Johnson, Leslie Greis, and Wendy Carle rounded out the scoring for the Crimson, as they waltzed into the locker with a 37-23 lead...
...often their fates have been determined by the thinnest chance and circumstance. He looked across the room and spoke of the strange tides that had swept them all along, and now had brought them together again. Indeed, the sequence of power, the flow of events, fascinated everyone. Mrs. Johnson was there because of John Kennedy's assassination, Nixon because Lyndon Johnson had been President, Ford because of Nixon, Rockefeller because of Ford. And maybe Carter was in the room because Ford had not kept Rockefeller as his vice-presidential candidate. Of course, they were all there to honor...