Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help those who can't help themselves--and so innocent, unsullied by the ravages wrought by deficit spending and the gimmicky neo-liberalism developed by egg-heads in response to President Reagan. Cuomo recites a manifesto only a slight bit rhetorically different from that uttered by FDR, JFK, and LBJ...
WHEN PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas in mid-1968 to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States, he had no idea of the controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an Associate Justice in 1965--had continued to council Johnson on political matters while sitting on the Court. With his nomination hopelessly stalled in the Senate Fortas withdrew his name from consideration in early October. Within a year, he had resigned from the Court entirely, pressured out by those who accused...
...hands of a trigger-happy administration, a draft could be used to smooth the way toward ill-advised U.S. adventurism along the lines of Lyndon Johnson's Southeast Asia strategy of 1966 and 1967. Volunteers became rarer during that period, but LBJ could depend on a steady flow of conscripted bodies to keep the troop planes full...
...Molineux called in the heat. This is nothing new for DSOC. DSOC leader Michael Harrington spent the first half of the sixties making red-baiting attacks on the Students for a Democratic Society, cheering on the Bay of Pigs invasion and going all the way with LBJ in Vietnam. It is such anti-communism that has made DSOC widely known as "State Department-socialists...
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