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Word: lessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics, in the one-party Texas of another era and the cloister of Capitol Hill. He had scant preparation for the larger, less orderly world of national politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE JOHNSON YEARS | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...narrow sense, Lyndon Johnson could function superlatively under stress. He could rap out hard decisions, maneuver in delicate foreign squabbles, intervene effectively in complex labor disputes. But in the less tangible sphere of sustaining the nation's confidence, understanding the drift of opinion, coping with articulate critics, Johnson was all too vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE JOHNSON YEARS | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...never really done. He tried to come across as the protean President, large in heart and body and energy, but that aura was not consonant with all-too-accurate stories of his pettiness, his bullying of aides, his unnecessary deceptions. His lack of candor about Viet Nam and about less substantial issues became chronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE JOHNSON YEARS | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

After ghetto rioting and Negro militance began to turn popular opinion against the black cause, Johnson's response was uncertain. He continued to fight for civil rights legislation, and his successes will be a durable monument to the will of a Southerner who had earlier been less than zealous on the Negro's behalf. Still, in 1967, when Hubert Humphrey urged a "Marshall plan" for impoverished areas following the Detroit riots, Johnson quashed that kind of talk. And when the Kerner Commission last year made ambitious recommendations for helping the Negro-findings that could easily have been mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE JOHNSON YEARS | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...harsh. Over a longer period, his prospects are better. It may be several years before the final results of the Viet Nam war are clear. Some of his domestic programs may set patterns for the future. His personality flaws, like those of some of his predecessors, will seem less significant a decade hence. Johnson, at least, is confident of history's favorable verdict, and will spend his remaining years buttressing his record. He talks of the personal papers that are flowing to Texas by the truckload. "I've got 31 million pages of material," he says, "more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE JOHNSON YEARS | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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