Word: johnson
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...Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, taking a direct swipe at President Bush by declaring that "never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled." There he was in Kentucky coal country, visiting the weathered porch where Lyndon Johnson announced the "War on Poverty" in 1964. There he was in Alabama's Black Belt, where people live without sewer systems, dancing as elderly quilters serenaded him with spirituals. And before the broken windows of a shuttered steel factory in Youngstown, Ohio, he said he felt America's economic pain. "People...
...scrubbing federal agencies for waste. Rather than announce any major anti-poverty initiatives, he proposed a three-month holiday from the gasoline tax, some subsidies for rural Internet providers and a doubling of the tax credit for families with dependent children. Rather than follow in the footsteps of Lyndon Johnson, he praised the nobility of Johnson's cause but then pointed out the failures of the "War on Poverty" effort...
...suffering rejection. He surrendered his student deferment in 1961, voluntarily joined the Marines and, after a two-year stint, volunteered to become a Navy corpsman. He excelled and became valedictorian, later a cardiopulmonary technician and eventually a member of the President's medical team. Wright cared for Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery, earning three White House letters of commendation...
...state that hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964, so it's not surprising that Hoosiers are a bit taken aback by the attention suddenly showered on the upcoming May 6 Indiana primary. Until a few weeks ago, "a lot of people probably didn't even know where Indiana is," observes Patricia O'Connor, 58, an assistant school superintendent (and still undecided voter) here in South Bend, one of Indiana's few Democratic strongholds...
...attendees consistently broke down the practical application of the nutritional advice and offered recipe alternatives that would be palatable to less adventurous diners. Progress is slowly being made throughout the country, one whole-wheat bun at a time. And with a 500 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and their promise to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015, the promise of a healthy and delicious future seems bright. However unrealistic the superstar roster of the Healthy Kitchens conference and its vineyard paradise setting may have been, at the end of the day its message was powerful...