Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hued, durable lumber (it virtually defies dry rot) is highly prized for its structural and decorative uses. To date, the battle has gone to the chainsaw. Where there were once 2,000,000 acres of virgin redwoods, only 250,000 stand today. Last week, as Congress sent to President Johnson a bill establishing the nation's first Redwood National Forest, the conservationists won a significant victory...
...been the real heavy during the Moscow meetings. He would listen only to President Ludvik Svoboda, a hero of the Czechoslovak brigade that fought against the Nazis. Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward the captive Czechoslovak leaders...
Krock laments the deterioration of the country's moral and political fiber, the inflation that destroys savings, the pressures toward "total integration" of blacks and whites, the introduction (by Kennedy and Johnson) of a "welfare state subsidized from Washington." He considers it an inexcusable sin that Kennedy and Johnson committed the U.S. to a land war in Asia. Above all, Krock bemoans the "transmutation" of U.S. democracy into a "judicial autocracy" in which the Supreme Court has assumed "overlordship of the government and all the people to fit the political philosophy of the current majority...
Then, a few years ago, the paper began to wilt. The exposes became rarer, the style more turgid. Weary of the 40,000-word weekly grind, Dugger turned to more leisurely writing, including a soon-to-be-published book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward...
...Observer's latest impertinence has sent tremors all the way to Washington. Shortly after L.B.J. named the president of Southwest Texas State College, his alma mater, as No. 2 man in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Observer published a decidedly embarrassing report on the Johnson appointee. Dr. James H. McCrocklin, the paper said, had won his doctoral degree with a dissertation almost identical to a master's thesis submitted by his wife a year earlier. The Observer not only gave paragraph-for-paragraph proof of its contention but also revealed that McCrocklin...