Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's future was immutably changed. Robert Francis Kennedy, 42, slight, tousle-haired, fatalistic, intense, was a messiah to some, an opportunist to others. He announced his candidacy for the White House four days after another improbable visionary, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, had almost beaten Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. McCarthy's antipolitical antiwar campaign had galvanized American youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back...
...youth -- exploded into the Theater of Revolution. Chicago. Paris. Prague. Mexico City. Berkeley and ) the London School of Economics. Everywhere and all at once, students rose in protest and revolt. Red and black flags, mycelia of defiance, sprouted overnight. France ground to a standstill. Charles de Gaulle tottered. Lyndon Johnson left politics. To revolution's fervid practitioners, it was 1848 and the 1871 Paris Commune rolled into one, then mixed with modern hedonism. THE MORE I MAKE REVOLUTION, THE MORE I WANT TO MAKE LOVE! proclaimed a slogan on a Sorbonne wall...
...flight was also a profoundly intimate marriage of science and dream, progress and exploration -- what, in fact, the New World had always stood for. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," Lyndon Johnson told the astronauts by telephone aboard the carrier Yorktown. "You've seen what man has never seen before." One of those things, which was to grow in significance in forthcoming decades, was the earth's finitude: with Apollo 8, humanity had found a godlike perch from which to examine its collective limits...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Johanna McGeary, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
...strain of the war effort was rubbing harder against the certainties of Pentagon planners, as Americans watched nightly televised images of young men engaged in search-and-destroy missions with a stubbornly invisible enemy. Nonetheless, official American confidence was largely unshaken. The Communist enemy was believed by Lyndon Johnson's White House to be "struggling to stave off military defeat...