Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pamphlets were discovered early today by a Wakefield newsboy. They bore the heading "Why Kill LBJ?" and read "Because he is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans in Vietnam, forced to fight for their own lives in a futile war in which they do not believe. SOMEONE MUST KILL LBJ if democracy is to be restored in the U.S." The name of the organization was at the bottom...
...custodian at Wakefield's St. John's Church discovered another pamphlet in the church parking lot later in the morning. This one read "Thousands of Americans are being killed while LBJ vacations." There was no mention of the Harvard organization but it was written by the same hand and mimeographed on the same machine as the other pamphlets...
Latter-Day Boswell. As Press Secretary, Moyers has provided a gusher of information where once there had been an erratic trickle. Some reporters have even complained that there was far too much, particularly after a weekend at the LBJ Ranch, when Moyers deluged them with 40-odd handouts hymning Administration triumphs ranging from a campaign to reduce wasted space in post offices to a wildlife preserve in Maryland. Moyers totally lacks the histrionic instincts of a Pierre Salinger, the avuncular authority of a Jim Hagerty. But after only 3½ months on the job, he is widely rated...
Most people then left, but 70 counter demonstrators managed to organize a march back toward Harvard Square. Only 30 made it all the way back to the Square. Shouting "Bomb Hanot" and "Long Live LBJ," they toured the Square and the Yard before breaking up in the early evening...
Guarded Secret. Though it was to end as history's most publicized gallbladder operation,* Johnson's ailment was a rigidly guarded secret for almost a month. His troubles began last Sept. 7, the day after Labor Day. In his first-floor bedroom at the LBJ Ranch, he awakened shortly after 6 a.m. with a sharp abdominal pain. His first thought was that it might have been something he ate. Then, perhaps mindful of the pains that accompanied his near-fatal heart attack in 1955, Lyndon woke Lady Bird, talked it over with her, and agreed that...