Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...90th Congress ended its cantankerous first session last week, Lyndon Johnson gave the nation a preview of his re-election campaign. A dominant theme in 1968, he made clear, would be the mass-and the meaning -of legislation he has extracted from Capitol Hill since he took office. And for whatever laws the President wanted and failed to get, Republican obstructionism would take the blame...
...President George Meany has already endorsed the President for reelection. The latest federation convention whooped through a resolution supporting the Administration's Viet Nam policy and, with Walter Reuther absent, there was barely a skeptic to be found. Instead of end-the-war placards, Johnson spotted one promoting LYNDON NUGENT...
Wild-Eyed Engineer. Wooden or not, Republican troopers felt the wounds. House G.O.P. Leader Gerald Ford immediately retorted: "The Great Society of Lyndon Johnson has become a runaway locomotive with a wild-eyed engineer at the throttle." Johnson's speech was so widely acknowledged as blatantly partisan that Ford and Senate Leader Everett Dirksen had no trouble getting half an hour of rebuttal time three nights later on all three major networks...
...utter misunderstanding of how to affect it all. At a time when the vacationing campus activists were but a few paces from a man with whom they could speak and get his attention (namely, the Member), they worked themselves up over an anti-war petition to-- of all people--Lyndon Johnson. The anger expressed by some interns at the President's refusal to meet with them and receive their policy-shaking set of signatures struck me as incredibly naive. I do not mean to infer that last summer's interns should have attempted to lecture to their Congressmen, soberly...
Presidents are usually safe in quoting Abe Lincoln, and few have made more use of Honest Abe than Lyndon Johnson. But after New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis got through investigating one of L.B.J.'s favorite Lincoln stories last week, Presidents will have to think twice before quoting the Great Emancipator...