Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like the Johnson Administration before him, President Nixon opposed the measure as an attempt to tie the Executive's hands in dealing with foreign countries. At best, the Nixon people felt, it might result in confusion in foreign chancelleries. At worst, it might hobble the execution of foreign policy and perhaps even interfere with the Paris peace negotiations. Democratic Senator Gale McGee, one of the resolution's few active opponents, said that it was "loaded with mischief-making...
...destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs, and Lyndon Johnson saw no need to ask Congress before sending fighting men to the Dominican Republic...
...Americans are one of the world's most sports-conscious people, yet for years they have not had a President who shared that enthusiasm. President Eisenhower's interest was largely con fined to golf and John Kennedy's to swimming and sailing. In the Johnson years, the principal sport was hunting ranch deer from a Lincoln Continental...
...theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen feel that theology created by white men views God's action through honkie eyes, making it meaningless for the Negro situation. Says Methodist Bishop Joseph A. Johnson: "We affirm our blackness, recognize that our experience is authentic and create a theology based on our experience...
Freeing Power. Black theology views the possibility of violence calmly. "As I look at the American scene," says Bishop Johnson, "I see no possible way to change the structures of injustice except through violence. I hope my vision is wrong." The only Roman Catholic present at the meeting, Father Lawrence Lucas of Saint Joseph's Church in Harlem, draws on the "just war" tradition. "Deliberate, planned violence can be morally justified, and violence can play a role in effecting social change," he says...