Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was not greatly changed from the agenda which had faced the American people and their government a quarter century earlier when I arrived at the Capitol as a newly elected member of Congress." That's the first sentence in the book. It is a little frightening. (One imagines LBJ at the first meeting of his Cabinet saying, "Now there's one little item I'd like to bring up. It's a project that's been on my mind for some time. I've called it the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...LBJ hastens to explain what he means. "It seemed that each Cabinet officer who came to brief me on the challenges before us spoke as a voice from the past." That is the second sentence in the book. It goes nicely with the first...
Similarly, there are songs that spin such sentiments as "Happy Birthday, Abie Baby, emanci-mother-fuckin'-pator of the slaves" or LBJ took the IRT and found the youth of America on LSD." Oh, and there are songs about sodomy, hashish and the age of aquarius. As you can see, there's a lot of good stuff here...
Volume One, Number One, Cost One Dollar of The Washington Monthly includes; Sidey interviewing Bill Moyers of LBJ and Newsday on "The White House Staff vs. The Cabinet"; a piece by Kempton on the Teacher Corps; a story about how Congress favors building SST's and not smogless cars (i.e., your basic air-pollution priority story); a short unfunny piece on what happens after marijuana is legalized in 1989 by Calvin Trillin of the New Yorker; something about Republicans by Stephen Hess, Moynihan's assistant; a piece on statistics; a story called "The Culture of Bureaucracy: The Special Assistant...
...April '67, two days after she was awarded the White House fellowship, an article co-authored by Miss Kearns appeared in the New Republic entitled "How to Remove LBJ in 1968." The article was written with Sanford Levenson. Both authors were Dunster House tutors at the time...