Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born as the result of heated contention between loyalists and revolutionaries. The rise of the common people took place during the controversial presidency of Andrew Jackson. The end of slavery was brought about during the war between the states. The great Depression produced human progress unequaled until the divisive Johnson Administration...
...LYNDON JOHNSON'S fifth and final Thanksgiving Proclamation was not the conventional catalogue of national self-congratulation. How could it be, after the sort of year the nation-and the world-has experienced? Flat and matter-of-fact, it fell far short of eloquence. Yet in tone and temper, it probably came close to expressing the mood of Americans in a year many of them would rather forget...
...enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith wondered what a man from an earlier century might have felt if he had sat beside him in the automobile: "A rational man, like Dr. Johnson, must surely see that the species had at last given up its glimmer of sanity and was annihilating itself in this magnificent, psychotic Götterdammerung...
...President-elect Dwight Eisenhower had already named his entire Cabinet. Richard Nixon is in no such hurry-partly because he thinks Ike should have weighed his choices more cautiously. Despite some muttering among members of Lyndon Johnson's Administration that new Cabinet officers had better start consulting with their outgoing counterparts soon in order to smooth the transfer of power, Nixon was moving with characteristic caution...
Although many will be departing with their bosses, some secretaries will remain. Last week Lyndon Johnson gathered them to express his gratitude for their labors and present each with a charm bearing the presidential seal...