Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about Viet Nam was intensified for Americans as the bloody, muddy ordeal of Con Thien flickered across the TV screen. With total U.S. casualties nearing 100,000 since 1961, with the war's cost running at $24 billion a year and with rumors circulating on Capitol Hill that Lyndon Johnson may need $4 billion more before the end of 1967, there was a measurable increase in American unease and impatience...
...fact, most informed Americans realize only too well that there are no instant, painless answers to the ordeal in Viet Nam, and that the options are growing fewer. The President's determination to stay the course promises a sorely trying year for the nation. Even Lyndon Johnson's well-hedged hint of another bombing pause should raise no undue hopes. Nor, if the halt is ordered, is there any guarantee that it will move Hanoi any nearer to the conference table than the six previous suspensions of the air war in the North. Nonetheless, conscience and practical politics...
...Administration had had the option to build no ABM system at all, or to construct either the thin shield, aimed at blunting a strike from Peking, or a "thick" shield, designed to cope with an all-out onslaught from Moscow. As usual, Lyndon Johnson staked out the middle ground, and, as usual, he and McNamara came under crossfire from both flanks...
...Poll calculated that Rocky leads L.B.J. 50% to 38%, Romney leads the President 45% to 42%, and Senator Charles Percy, now likely to be Illinois' favorite son, ties L.B.J. at 42%. However, Mervin Field's California Poll reported that the voters there preferred only one Republican to Lyndon Johnson, and that is Nelson Rockefeller. Field's figures had Rocky beating L.B.J...
...that simple. Guy, 22, and Peggy, 18, took on more than the double risk of a young and mixed marriage when they exchanged rings and vows. The wedding bells rang also for Dean Rusk. Protocol makes the Secretary of State No. 1 in the President's Cabinet, and Lyndon Johnson has made him No. 1 in presidential esteem and trust. Anything that affects Rusk personally also affects the Administration politically. Thus there was credibility to the speculation that Rusk, when informing Johnson of the wedding, offered to resign if the White House considered that necessary...