Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gorey: I don't agree with that. It seems to me that Nixon could easily fall into the same traps that Lyndon Johnson fell into, even more readily than Hubert Humphrey. One reason is Nixon's insulation...
...where it simply cannot be counted on to get out the vote. Nor is the situation atypical. In practically every northern, urbanized state-the kind Humphrey must carry if he is to have any chance of winning the election-the party's machinery is in desperate disrepair Lyndon Johnson during the past five years has done little to reverse the trend, may even have accentuated it by his indifference...
Final Throes. As adjournment approached, the weary Congress still faced the possibility that the President might try to push through the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and offer a new nominee for Chief Justice of the U.S. in place of scorned Abe Fortas. Johnson decided against submitting another nomination, but insisted that Congress act on the nuclear treaty before adjournment. The Senate, as it has frequently done during the session, ignored the President and pushed for adjournment. The House, however, was prevented from following suit by a group of liberal Democrats who hoped to keep both chambers in session until...
...there was ever hope for a limit to the arms race in the Middle East, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko quashed it during his visit to the U.S. He was simply uninterested. Accordingly, last week President Johnson responded to a year-old Israeli request for 50 U.S. F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to match the growing supersonic strength of the Arab air forces. He ordered the State Department to begin negotiations with Israel about the sale of the jets-thereby making possible continued Israeli superiority...
Since the Phantoms will not be delivered until next year at the earliest, the chief immediate effect was political. The Israelis welcomed Johnson's move as a symbol of U.S. support in the face of a buildup of Arab forces. For the same reason, the Arabs reacted with fury. Still to be determined was how the sale would affect what a U.S. diplomat called a "small but precious momentum for peace" that has been building up at the United Nations...