Word: johnsonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This faith in the office of the Presidency survived into the initial years of the Johnson administration. As Vietnam became a bigger and bigger issue Unruh remembers, "I was never a hawk but I thought the President knew a little more than anyone else, so I trusted him." Essentially, the Kennedy mystique paved the way for an open trust of Johnson, an open trust for whatever man occupied the White House...
...questioned a Republican sooner, but I so trusted the leadership of the party under Kennedy that it took me a long time to change my mind." Exactly when Unruh changed his mind about Vietnam is unclear, but on December 1. 1968. pressure was put on him to join the Johnson primary ticket. He steadfastly refused. He argued with Bobby Kennedy nine days later and positively urged him to run. By the convention in Chicago, Unruh's efforts to swing the California delegation to McCarthy and the dove plank were "predictable...
...Dewner set a track record of 1:11.6 in squeezing by teammate John Gillis in the 600-yard run, and Walter Johnson set still another varsity track record for the Crimson when he won the 60-yard high hurdles in a time of 7.6 seconds...
Harvard also could be strong in the sprints this season, for the first time in years. Sophomore Ed Diamond and Bud Wilson add much-needed strength in the 60-yard dash, and juniors Tom Downer and John Gillis should be definite threats in the 600-yard run. Walter Johnson and John Metzger are the leading contenders in the 60-yard hurdles...
...record, Watts occasionally losing the beat, the lyres changed from fifteen to thirteen year-old girl (outrage, like any fashion, ages quickly). They do some slow numbers, a "Prodigal Son." Richard's steel guitar funkier and less evocative than the Rev. Robert Wilkins, and "Love in Vain," a Robert Johnson song, which Jagger, sketching out the Stones' new image, and rushed to keep ahead of mere satyriasis and the universal dope-taker, dedicates to "the minority groups in the audience, the fags and the junkies...