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...empty White House and a Congress which was not in session. The signs which said "On to Hanoi" were not made or carried by Lampoon members. Our signs were all absurd: "Don't Rock the Junk," "Save the White House Easter Egg Roll," and "We love you, LBJ...
...first the chants from the Lampoon steps were entirely unrelated to Vietnam: an LBJ echo cheer, "Happy Easter" sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday" and a stirring rendition of "My Country 'tis of Thee." As a finale we planned to stage a protest Easter egg roll in front of the buses. Unfortunately the buses had not arrived when the purely frivolous chants began to wear thin. An effort to play a tape of last week's "Shindig" to fill the gap failed because we did not have a loud enough speaker...
...police the march route, demanded "federal civil authorities" to do the job because Alabama simply could not afford to. Obviously, Wallace was throwing to the President the onus of having to call out the Alabama National Guard. The President accepted the challenge and from the LBJ Ranch issued the orders that sent the Guard onto the parade route. "Responsibility for maintaining law and order in our federal system properly rests with state and local governments," the President scornfully advised Wallace in a telegram. "I thought that you felt strongly about this...
...benefit of those who become incensed by what they see as merely personal views, the signers of this letter are supporters of civil rights, SNCC, LBJ, academic freedom in Tougaloo, Miss. and in Cambridge, Mass. Also, we are seniors who will not be affected personally by future trends in RGA. C. Sheridan Murphy '65 Caroline D. Warner...
...Healthy Outlook. Three and a half years later, after a stint in Korea, Lloyd returned to the University of Texas to finish his law studies. Even before he graduated, he was summoned to the office of Senator Lyndon Johnson for an interview and subsequently hired as one of LBJ's administrative assistants...