Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August 1960, that resolution passed-48 to 37. The Democratic majority leader who voted for it himself and who led 47 other members of his party to do the same was Lyndon Baines Johnson. It does make a difference whose ox is gored, doesn...
...Shock Ploy. This is the most extreme version of the theory that Humphrey must above all dissociate himself from Lyndon Johnson. He resigns forthwith as Vice President (this has been seriously considered by Columnists Clayton Fritchey, Ted Lewis and others) and proves that he has at last become his own man. He calls for an immediate, unconditional bombing halt in Viet Nam and phased withdrawal of U.S. troops. He possibly balances this dovish move in Asia by getting tough with the Russians in Europe, issuing stiff warnings to Moscow against any more dangerous moves on the Continent. He further breaks...
...Candor Caper. Conceding that Plan No. 1 is too extreme, Humphrey resuscitators consider this a more reasonable and plausible version of the shock ploy. After hymning the Democratic record under such great Presidents as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey announces that it is indeed time for a change-a Democratic change. He analyzes the nation's discontents, proposes root-and-branch cures, and submits a list of priorities based on de-escalating a war that, however noble its original aims, has become irrelevant to the more pressing needs of a divided America. The line...
While Nixon's concept of an open presidency is in diametric contrast with Lyndon Johnson's vest-pocket conduct of the office, it does not exactly reflect his own performance as a candidate...
...first time since Robert Kennedy's assassination, the surviving Kennedy brother returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...