Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company, it may have been a pretty good deal. Johnny's raspy. throaty, wailing voice is perfectly suited to traditional blues, while his lightning-fast finger work, on both electric and acoustic "bottleneck" guitar, can only be compared to the style of such legendary black musicians as Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker...
Last week other Democratic and Republican Senators joined in the attack. The unkindest cut came from a Republican, New York's Jacob Javits, who accused Nixon of continuing the "sterile and unsuccessful" policies of the Johnson Administration. "The old myths, the old self-delusions and the old phraseology recur again and again," Javits charged. He suggested that personnel changes have not gone deep enough because Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Henry Cabot Lodge, General Creighton Abrams and others associated with Johnson's Viet Nam policies remain in key posts...
HARDLY any Administration is free of scandal. Harry Truman had T. Lamar Caudle and assorted "five-percenters." Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams and his vicuna coat. Lyndon Johnson had Bobby Baker-and Abe Fortas. To a cynical public, the recurrent surfacing of peculators and huggermuggers suggests that almost everyone in Washington is on the take. The truth is more reassuring, though bad enough. The capital does tolerate unsavory practices that could and should be stopped...
...hard to find an ex-aide of Lyndon Johnson's who has not gone to a firm that solicits work from the Government, and there is a long list of men who have served on regulatory agencies and later represented clients before those very same agencies. Last year the Civil Aeronautics Board completely reversed the recommendations of its own examiners in handing out lucrative trans-Pacific routes, largely favoring airlines whose officers or lobbyists had connections with the Democratic Party. Richard Nixon has since vetoed the deal; whether Republican-oriented airlines win the next round remains to be seen...
...thus came as a distinct shock to most Americans when LIFE reported that Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, an appointee, longtime confidant and private legal retainer of Lyndon Johnson, had accepted a $20,000 fee from the family foundation of Stock Speculator Louis Wolfson, who was then under investigation and is now in jail. Fortas-who admitted that LIFE'S facts were essentially correct-had held the money for almost a year, returning it three months after Wolfson's indictment. Although Fortas had not broken any law, he had clearly been guilty of a gross indiscretion...