Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affair into a historical context, rather than a crassly political one. He notes that Fortas fell victim to what amounted to a swing of the pendulum in American politics, when the "whales" of the Senate saw their power pass away to a younger generation and when the liberalism of LBJ and JFK was replaced by a conservatism of which we may only now be seeing the last vestiges...
Political cliches, as a recent article in The New York Times by E.J. Dionne notes, have been the symbolism--and sometimes--the substance of political campaigns in the U.S. since the buck stopped with Harry S. Truman and the country went all the way with LBJ...
...resurrecting the memories of JFK and LBJ, Dukakis is living in the past while ignoring history in the making. The Rev. Jesse Jackson will not be ignored--as is becoming more and more evident with the malestrom of media coverage and the general furor surrounding his role at the convention. Dukakis, with his penchant for reclaiming the spirit of Camelot for his presidential campaign, is overlooking the historical significance of this year's Democratic race for the White House...
...stand-up comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind of buffoon figure for me when I was growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with...
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