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...world is very different now. Conventions have devolved from intense and unpredictable political events to vacuous and scripted shows, and George W. Bush is about as different from LBJ as a Texan president could be. But the way things are shaping up, America will have to take care to avoid an ugly and familiar scene at the 2004 Republican convention in New York City...
...Eugene] McCarthy had just launched an extraordinary campaign where he challenged his own party,” Jahncke says of the historic contest. “He lost in the New Hampshire primary by a hair to Lyndon Johnson, but that tally unseated LBJ...
...speech on the recent events in Iraq. Dean made quick work of Bush’s 18-minute monologue, labeling it “outrageous.” And after he was done with the more quippy part of his denunciation, Dean quickly moved on to liken Bush to LBJ and Tricky Dick. (In Iraq, 300 soldiers have died; in Vietnam...
...wars to the American people are now notorious. In 1964, a Navy crew’s panicky suspicion that it had come under fire by a Vietnamese ship was within a few hours spun by President Lyndon B. Johnson into a malicious act of Communist aggression. For his lies, LBJ was rewarded with congressional authorization to escalate our fateful military adventure in Indochina. In 1990, the first President Bush employed bogus accounts of Iraqi soldiers tossing Kuwaiti newborns out of incubators to overcome the public’s unwillingness to wage war against the tyrant who had only months before...
...Goldwater anecdotes, while entertaining, mask a major problem in the book. Perlstein describes a fantastic universe of characters and personalities, including a bipolar LBJ and a young, liberal David Horowitz, but too often he goes off on long tangents, leaving Goldwater to simply make occasional appearances from his surreal airplane. After Goldwater’s rise to fame, we see very little of his inner thoughts, which is odd, considering that he is the book’s main character. Instead, we are treated to exquisite explorations of LBJ’s anxieties, Nixon’s cunning political ploys...