Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow up with reciprocation of some sort. Humphrey held off detailing his position but hinted privately that he would come out for a bombing halt. The Communist troops returned to the offensive in South Viet Nam, and the Russians, poised for their invasion of Czechoslovakia, apparently toughened their terms. Johnson's riposte was an angry speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Detroit. "This Administration," he declared, "does not intend to move further until it has good reason to believe that the other side intends seriously to join with us in de-escalating." The speech pulled...
Rocking-Chair Candidate. McCarthy's supporters charged that the whole convention was being set up with Humphrey's needs in mind. But in reality it was Lyndon Johnson who was in control, and he did not seem overly interested in rigging the convention for his Vice President. Each of the 5,611 delegates and alternates received a free copy of To Heal and To Build, a collection of Johnson speeches. In an otherwise cogent keynote speech, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye devoted paragraphs to the President's accomplishments. A Japanese-American who lost his right...
Inouye's peroration was a lavish tribute to the President that could sway the whole convention. McCarthy's campaign manager, Stephen Mitchell, a former Democratic national chairman, helped feed speculation about a Johnson draft when he declared: "It may be that Mr. Humphrey feels a strong presence behind him, a man on a white horse, a certain large ranch owner from Texas." Delegates from both Tennessee and Texas fanned the rumors by urging that Johnson be drafted, particularly in light of Czechoslovakia...
...likelihood is small, and Johnson quipped at week's end: "I'm not a candidate for anything except maybe a rocking chair." But the fact that it was even being mentioned was a measure of the Democrats' uneasy mood as they assembled in Chicago. Said McCarthy Aide Richard Goodwin: "This is the convention of the lemmings. Everybody is swimming out to sea, screaming at each other-and Richard Nixon is sitting on the bank laughing...
...unspoken fear was that black militants in dingy, high-rise public housing off the Dan Ryan Expressway might fire on delegates traveling to and from the hall. Two police helicopters patrolled the route. President Johnson, if he attends at all, will avoid this danger, zipping in and out by helicopter. As an added precaution, a dummy portico, modeled after the entrance to the White House, was erected in front of the amphitheatre's main door to block the aim of any rifleman. Even the airspace up to an altitude of 2,500 ft. above the convention site was banned...