Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still stood ready for the aides and auxiliaries who attend the Commander in Chief. Secret Service agents were as protective as ever of the man they were assigned to guard. Yet everything, of course, had changed, and the L.B.J. ranch-the seat of power for perhaps a fifth of Lyndon Johnson's 1,887 days as President-was the home of a private citizen...
CHATTING with Lyndon Johnson at the Texas ranch last week, TIME Correspondent Richard Saltonstall asked if, on reflection, there was anything he would have done differently as President. Johnson pondered for a second and then, in a voice so low that he could hardly be heard, said that he could not answer until he sat down with his diary and looked at the events and decisions of each day. When he got out the record for March 5, 1965, for example, and examined the specifics, he said, he might ... At that point his voice became inaudible even to the reporter...
...five miles west of Danang in what was officially titled a "limited mission." It was, in fact, the beginning of the direct military involvement that was to place 535,000 U.S. troops in South Viet Nam and lead eventually-among a host of other things-to the retirement of Lyndon Johnson from the White House. To the former President, it was obviously a date to remember...
...hardest-fought commercial air battle in Washington memory seemed to end last month when Lyndon Johnson awarded new Pacific routes to six of 18 carriers that had sought them for more than a decade. Johnson's choices were two Pacific veterans, Pan American and Northwest, and newcomers TWA, Continental and all-cargo Flying Tiger. In addition, Braniff got new runs to Hawaii. Last week Richard Nixon said: nothing doing. In a letter to the Civil Aeronautics Board, Nixon stated that he would "recall the matter" and later on "advise you of my decision on the merits...
...years ago, Alan S. Boyd refused an offer to head the Association of American Railroads and accepted in stead Lyndon Johnson's appointment as the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Last week Boyd joined the rail roads after all - under a different Johnson. He took the post of president of the Illinois Central Railroad, succeeding William B. Johnson, 50, who will be come chairman while remaining chief executive. "W.B.J.," as he is known around the railroad's Chicago headquarters, will also continue to head the parent Illinois Central Industries. It is a holding company that owns more than...