Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upturned Faces. As he concluded his State of the Union address, Johnson put in an unusual word with the Congress for his successor. "President-elect Nixon, in the days ahead, is going to need your understanding, just as I did, and he is entitled to have it," said the President. "And I hope every member will remember that the burdens he will bear as our President will be borne...
...Lyndon Johnson paused and looked down at the upturned faces before him-the black-robed members of the Supreme Court, the glittering diplomatic corps, his Cabinet, the Senators and Representatives. "And now it's time to leave," he said...
...members of Congress tried to sing Auld Lang Syne, and the hand-clapping was warm. This was really goodbye to the great love of Lyndon Johnson's life, the U.S. Congress. His car hurried through the clear, cold night of Washington, back toward the White House. He rode with Lady Bird, and they swooped down Independence Avenue and around the white obelisk of the Washington Monument and then back to the South Portico. L.B.J. was a different and silent man, because this at last was his public finale and his personal adieu...
...Vice President Nixon a decade later. Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, has been an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, and has become a highly influential Republican in the House. Secretary of State-designate William Rogers was Eisenhower's last Attorney General; during the Kennedy and Johnson years, he kept a handsome house in Bethesda, Md., and worked both in New York and Washington for a topflight New York law firm...
Although Hubert Humphrey was the Democrats' nominee for President, the last-minute surge of popularity that won him only 499,704 fewer votes than Richard Nixon last November was no credit to his divided, dispirited party. For four years, the Democratic organization had been neglected by Lyndon Johnson; the potent coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt was crumbling. The young were ignoring the party, and the Old South had deserted it. The big-city Democratic machines were frayed from the stresses of racial tension and urban decay. In fact, the most vocal critics of Democratic policies were Democrats themselves. Some...