Word: lyndon
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...clergyman who has known the Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson since college days, who has campaigned for him for political office, and who has followed his inspired and inspiring leadership as President with pride and with prayers, let me give one man's testimony that he "was a good man to begin with" and that he is still a good and great man. I truly believe that in time there will be acclaim for Johnson as one of our really great Presidents. He knows well the uses of power, and his courage has made him the man of the hour...
Obviously, the United States will have to change its attitude toward the Saigon regime before peace talks can even begin, much less mean anything. This will be a difficult political task for Lyndon Johnson. In the past year, U.S. officials showered such praise on the Saigon government's elections and so fervently coddled the hawkish victors that any turnabout now would look like a jarring change...
...scholar who has never given much credence to the theory that a conspiracy was behind John F. Kennedy's assassination is John P. Roche, former Brandeis dean, ex-national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, and currently Lyndon Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence." For the benefit of those who accept the theory, he cites Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive...
...copter pads, including one for the two-state Port Authority. Mayor John Lindsay uses the fire department's East River pier or the lawn of his official residence at Gracie Mansion. Even the meadows of Central Park have been pressed into service for emergency police-helicopter landings and Lyndon Johnson...
Though generally more subtle than tariffs, such practices are often equally effective in locking out the goods of other countries-and nobody knows this better than Lyndon Johnson. "Nontariff barriers," he said in his balance of payments statement last week, "pose a continued threat to the growth of world trade and to our competitive position." In particular, the President expressed concern over foreign-mostly European-nations whose tax systems give "across-the-board tax rebates on exports which leave their ports and impose special border tax charges on our goods entering their countries...