Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political mistake of waiting until the Salt Lake City speech of October, 1968 before publicly separating himself from LBJ's war policies is indisputable and something Humphrey readily admitted to later. It is the larger question that will continue to stir debate: assuming Humphrey thought he had to support Johnson to win, was he justified in reversing Henry Clay's dictum--in deciding he'd rather be President than right--for the purpose of putting himself instead of Richard Nixon in office...
...investigation of the incident. In so doing, Price says Nixon was following fairly standard presidential practice. "When you have a political embarrassment of potentially major proportions, you try to find some way to make it go away. I think Nixon did pretty much what FDR or JFK or LBJ would have done...
...hardly surprising that the first novel to come from the typewriter of the 1971 President of The Crimson is about the harsh lessons of contemporary politics viewed from the activist perspective of a onetime building-occupier. After all, author Garrett Epps '72 entered college in the era of LBJ, the draft and Vietnam, and marched out at the time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race...
...easy to understand why Carter would pick such a masterful tacticain to head the Pentagon. After all, when Brown worked for LBJ he was one of the "whiz kids" with a sure answer to the nation's "problem" in Vietnam. Bomb 'em, he said, and bomb 'em some more. Such a history must have impressed Carter, who hopes we all will sleep easier with Harold Brown in the war room...
...also a precinct captain in the mayor's own 11th ward, returned his smile. He knew tonight was important. Mayor Richard J. Daley wanted this to be the largest parade ever held for a single individual. It would be bigger than the torchlight parades he organized for JFK and LBJ. The mayor is no Carter fanatic, but he needs a Carter victory to help carry his gubernatorial candidate, Michael J. Howlett, into office. So for Daley, control of the state is at stake; control means patronage, and patronage is power...