Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over a long breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast and coffee, President Roosevelt got a firsthand account of warfare in the Pacific from his young, trusted friend, Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. Tall Lyndon Johnson, a Navy lieutenant commander, had sought active duty one hour after voting for war against Japan. He had ranged as far as Perth, Melbourne, Sidney, Darwin and Port Moresby. Now he returned to Washington 28 Ib. lighter (from a pneumonia attack) but much wiser in the ways...
Producer Walter Wanger, holding tight to the theme of Author Barre Lyndon's original novel, worked overtime to plant his elaborate desert with oases of significance. He made the border skirmish part of Adolf Hitler's so-called plan of navy-less world domination (by conquering the European-Asiatic land mass, thus becoming independent of his enemies' sea power). He also furnished a flag-waving ending. Both devices are more embarrassing than exciting...
Norris L. Tibbetts, Jr. '42, Samson O. A. Ullmann, Jr. '43, Donald F. Waterman '43, Gurden W. Wattles '42, Carl Weihl '42, Lyndon Welch '43, David B. Williams '42, Alan M. Winnick '43, Cornelius A. Wood, Jr. '42, John A. Wood...
Observers called the result a rap on the knuckles for President Roosevelt, who had reached out his hand to endorse New Dealer Lyndon Johnson. But it was the first time in three campaigns that Lee O'Daniel failed to win a clean-cut majority over all his opponents...
...first time since the disastrous Roosevelt "purge" of 1938, the President had taken a bold and active hand in a State election. Lyndon Johnson, who first announced his candidacy from the steps of the White House, was backed three times during the campaign by letters and telegrams from Franklin Roosevelt, his "very old and close friend." On election eve Governor O'Daniel tried to include himself in the President's blessing, suggested to Franklin Roosevelt that Texas should have its own Army and Navy. It was a "breath-taking" idea, the President told Pappy. Then he wired Lyndon...