Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected President two years ago this week. That Nixon, you may recall, was the "Bring Us Together" man, the low-profile President who went about his business as quietly as possible, if also as deviously as possible. A President as detestable in his way as LBJ was in his-yet calmer, dull...
...another co-founder and jack-of-all-trades, now in hiding; and Verandah Porche, poet-in-residence who termed their band "refugees in winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse." And he relates their schemes with delight: freaking out Eugene McCarthy and a convention of college editors; leafleting LBJ's favorite church; roaming Washington's streets on the night of Martin Luther King's death; and , in the climax, outwitting the rival faction of the LNS with a daring daylight raid on its offices...
...unfortunately omits some events we would like to hear about. Mungo was there, and active, when the Resistance was still viable, when acid was to be avoided, and when Nixon and Mitchell stayed in New York. Mungo was calling for the impeachment of the President in front of LBJ's close advisers, shaking up the B.U. establishment, and living in his world of preYippie antics...