Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME says: "He reappeared at Nixon's inauguration to deliver a prayer that sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House." This implies that I was critical of former President Johnson in my prayer. Nothing could be further from the truth. I simply summed up what I have been preaching for 25 years...
...GEORGE JOHNSON Wausau...
...have discussed with former President Johnson many times the overwhelming problems facing America. I would never stoop to using such a platform for partisan criticism-especially of a man whom I admire, respect and love as I do former President Johnson. He most certainly did not interpret my prayer in the way TIME did because when I turned around on the platform and shook his hand, he said: "That was a wonderful prayer. God bless you." When he and his family left the platform, both Lynda and Luci came over and hugged and kissed...
...proposed treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons that some nonnuclear powers-notably West Germany-have feared might cut them off from peaceful applications of atomic technology. Also, Nixon wants to sound out the Atlantic allies carefully before broaching a summit conference to the Russians; by contrast, Lyndon Johnson dealt directly with Moscow and kept the Europeans posted only after he had decided...
...complaint so far. Democratic Senator George Mc-Govern of South Dakota confesses: "I'm pleasantly surprised at what seems to be a combination of prudence and progressive spirit." Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona points out that "after 1964, a lot of people complained that they had elected Johnson and gotten Goldwater's foreign policy. Now we've elected Nixon and, to a large extent, we're getting Johnson's domestic policies...