Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Offensive shows there's no light at the end of the tunnel; hordes of anti-War students get "Clean for Gene" and the Wisconsin senator-cum-poet's strong showing stuns LBJ into with-drawing from the race. A ghost with a five o'clock shadow named Richard Nixon rises from the dead as other Republicans self-destruct...
...Hampshire began giant-killing in 1932, when New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 snatched all eight Democratic delegates from front-runner Alfred E. Smith. Twenty years later, Senator Estes Kefauver's upset nudged President Harry S. Truman into retirement. When LBJ and Muskie flunked the New Hampshire test, they merely continued a time-honored tradition...
...1970s was the massive, widespread public interest in the arts fostered by two endowments--the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities--which provided tax money for individual artists and institutions. JFK started impetus for arts and galleries which was given birth under LBJ and now has been functioning for about ten years. The amount of money allotted by Congress has grown dramatically and increasingly every congressman from every district, no matter how small, wants to get involved. At one time the arts were frowned upon and now it's ready political issue...