Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Baines Johnson may have been elected "Man of the Year" but the cover picture by Artist David Levine is definitely the Caricature of the Century...
...committed to any candidate this year. As chairman of the House Republican Conference, Laird said, his principal concern was which presidential nominee could help elect the most Republican Congressmen. Laird thinks Rockefeller is that man; and the latest Louis Harris poll, matching Rockefeller, Nixon, Romney and Ronald Reagan against Lyndon Johnson, supports Laird's view. The survey found Rockefeller and Johnson tied. Nixon trailed by nine points, Romney by 13 and Reagan by 14. But, warned Laird, Rockefeller cannot afford to wait until the convention, because unless he stops Nixon in the primaries, Nixon will be unstoppable in Miami...
...ultimate design of Lyndon Johnson's re-election campaign will hinge on a number of factors presently unknown, notably the course of the Viet Nam war, the identity of his Republican rival and the condition of the presidential humors seven or eight months hence. This week, however, as Johnson starts his 1968 legislative-political calendar with the annual State of the Union message, general plans to fit all contingencies are emerging...
...graceful goodbye is not one of Lyndon Johnson's fortes. In the past three years, several dozen of his top aides and administrators-including such onetime prodigies and proteges as Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti, Robert McNamara and Gardner Ackley-have resigned or been reassigned. And often the manner of their going has left an aftertaste of malice and misunderstanding...
...Lyndon Bird. Radio Hanoi beams out greetings from Black Power Extremist Stokely Carmichael, repeating tapes that he recorded in North Viet Nam. "To hell with the white man," Carmichael tells the Negro. "It's his war. Let him fight it. The Viet Nam war is for the birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...