Word: johnson
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...Lyndon Johnson, who reached political maturity under Roosevelt, was very much attuned to constitutional battles. The supreme legislator of this century as a Senator, L.B.J. noticeably changed his tack when he got in the White House. "I'm not going to leave this job weaker than when I came in," he told his counsel, Harry McPherson. But for all his muscle flexing, Johnson chose to retire rather than run for re-election in the teeth of the Viet Nam protests. Six years later, Nixon would resign, swept from power by public disapproval and Congress's instigation of impeachment proceedings...
...megacounties, the fast-growing, sprawling suburbs ((NATION, June 15)), failed to highlight one of the most frightening aspects of these neo-urban communities: their stultifying similarity to one another. With their flashy office buildings and cookie-cutter shopping malls, bars and theme restaurants, megacounties like Orange County, Calif., and Johnson County, Kans., are not only interchangeable, they are indistinguishable. I despair to think of a generation whose idea of local color is watering holes such as Houlihan's or TGI Friday...
...James R. Johnson...
Heller, however, was no doctrinaire expansionist. After leaving office in 1964, he saw clearly the danger of resurgent inflation in an overheated economy and tried vainly to persuade Lyndon Johnson to raise taxes again to pay for the Viet Nam War. Though he lost that round -- and had to watch while war-driven inflation soared -- he retained his influence as a professor, an inveterate witness before congressional committees and a counselor to Democratic politicians...
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