Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
...realized that "uncontrollable" increases in debt interest and other costs would inflate the budget to $197 billion and trim the surplus to a bare $1.7 billion. Nor did Nixon's own department heads prove very sharp with their pencils. Their recommendations totaled $1 billion more than the original Johnson budget...
Though Shoup maintains that many U.S. officers saw the Viet Nam war as a chance to field-test new weapons and season a generation of career soldiers, the experience seems more an example of military?and political?misjudgment than of calculated aggressiveness. The military, which oversold Lyndon Johnson on the efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with...
...impressed Kennedy, and he was appointed Army Chief of Staff in 1962. When Taylor stepped down from the chairmanship two years yater, Wheeler took over. By law, he should have held the job for only two two-year terms, but Congress gave him an unprecedented extension requested by President Johnson...
Stowell was worried about the condition of two members of his already thin jumping squad. Long-jumper Skip Hare aggravated an old injury and Bob Galliers, another long-jumper, suffered a collapsed lung. If these two are slow in recovering, Stowell will rely on Walter Johnson to provide the strength in this event...