Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
Though Shoup maintains that many U.S. officers saw the Viet Nam war as a chance to field-test new weapons and season a generation of career soldiers, the experience seems more an example of military?and political?misjudgment than of calculated aggressiveness. The military, which oversold Lyndon Johnson on the efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with...
...genuine, the eulogies more than protocol. Richard Nixon, who emerged red-eyed from the hospital with his wife and daughter Tricia, praised his old mentor's "patriotism and statesmanship beyond party." Ike had at least lived to see his Republican protege in the White House, a long-held dream. Lyndon Johnson, who, while in office, consulted Eisenhower frequently, paid tribute to "this good man and noble leader." Once a bitterly outspoken foe, Harry Truman, now 84, remembered that before the two men were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services to his country...
...presidency was partly responsible for his party's loss in the 1954 congressional elections. Never again was he to have a Republican Congress. He conceived of the President's role as only one of a team running the country. For the last six years of Eisenhower's tenure, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn, the Democratic congressional leaders, helped to shape his domestic policy...
...Administration laid plans for the Bay of Pigs operation, leaving an enormous problem for its successor, it is unlikely that Ike, the meticulous technician, would have allowed the sloppy staff work that resulted in J.F.K.'s Cuban fiasco. And he would probably not have reacted as massively as Lyndon Johnson did in the Dominican Republic. By comparison, the U.S. intervention in Lebanon was refined and precise...