Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handled the stories on General William Westmoreland (Jan. 7, 1966) and the Twenty-five and Under generation (Jan. 6, 1967). Writer Kriss had a special qualification for his assignment: he wrote the Man of the Year cover story that appeared Jan. 1, 1965, when the subject was also President Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...Lyndon Johnson's 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence. Abroad, there was the war in Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs...
...strong President, but Johnson seems to have been endowed with an excessive share. He is egotistical enough to turn a sizable chunk of Texas into a memorial to himself (including a special plaque at the Hye Post Office immortalizing it as the spot where four-year-old Lyndon Johnson mailed his first letter). He is a "hill and valley" man, way up one day, deep down the next. He can be so overbearing to aides and so intolerant of debate within his official family that many of his best lieutenants have left him, often forcing him to surround himself with...
...command and the limitations of their exercise. Before Viet Nam took center stage, Cornell's Rossiter predicted that Johnson "would rank with what we call the first-class second-class Presidents, and perhaps with a big effort, even rise above that." Now he says: "This war has damaged Lyndon Johnson's place in history. It has divided the country, and that has cost him his power base. I bet he wakes up in the morning sometimes and wonders what happened...
There was a Christmas bonus, too, as Lyndon Johnson appeared on the three networks in "Conversation with the President" and placed new emphasis on hopes for "informal talks" between Saigon and the National Liberation Front. In all, 20 minutes of the interview, mostly comments dealing with Viet Nam, were deleted from the final tape. Though some network news executives objected to the editing, it seemed not only a reasonable but also an essential request, considering the gravity of the subjects he covered. On one occasion the President, who has often said that he considered his TV image "a national liability...