Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
Most of all, his hosts responded to the attention that Nixon's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, neglected to give them during his five years in office. While Nixon had previously met almost every leader he conferred with, the alchemy of the presidency had already transformed their relationships. His travels gave European leaders the opportunity to gauge both the style and substance of Nixon's presidency. Without exception, they were reassured...
...interests of the highway builders in the Executive Branch. Therefore it would have seemed only equitable to have appointed a city planner, or at least someone familiar with urban problems, to the post of Highway Administrator. But Turner is, in the words of one high official of the Johnson administration, "one of the cement pourers," and enjoys the reputation of being a captive of the highway lobbies. For planning roads in Colorado or Wyoming, Turner is fine; he is a competent engineer and has been with the Bureau of Public Roads since 1929. But to design roads which cut through...
...blues began feeling good to Johnny at the age of eleven, when he first heard the records of Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins on the radio down home in Beaumont, Texas. He began playing along on a hand-me-down guitar from his grandfather. Three years later, Johnny, 14, and Brother Edgar, 11, had their own band, Johnny and the Jammers. They made $8 a night for gigs across the border in Louisiana, where clubs were more lenient about age requirements. Edgar recalls that though Johnny only took enough lessons to pick up a few chords...
Last week, as they prepared for the forthcoming Apollo 9 mission, officials in Houston paid tribute to Houbolt, who quit NASA in 1963 and now works for an aeronautical-research firm in Princeton, N.J. "I just thank my lucky stars that guys like Houbolt came along," said Caldwell Johnson, chief of the manned-spacecraft-design office. "I suppose that Columbus had some help...