Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the Washington Star's Mary McGrory maintained that while there was joy in Saigon over Lodge's nomination, there was also "stealthy satisfaction among Washington doves." If Nixon were preparing to cut U.S. losses in Viet Nam and settle for less than Lyndon Johnson was willing to concede, she argued, Lodge would be the ideal broker. His past credentials as an unbending anti-Communist would help convince American opinion that the U.S. was making the best possible deal...
...chief bargainer. Nixon is fully cognizant that his No. 1 priority is Viet Nam. Key policies, both at home and abroad, depend upon a speedy settlement of the divisive war that has already claimed 30,644 American lives and drains $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury each year. Like Lyndon Johnson before him, Nixon will draft his instructions to his spokesman in Paris in minute detail. Like Harriman, Lodge will act strictly in response to his orders from...
...poor at home and father of democracy in Asia. He yearned to be a latter-day Lincoln to the blacks, to outshine F.D.R.'s memory among reformers, to surpass Truman's humane but hardheaded foreign-policy record, to evoke the affection accorded Eisenhower. Above all, Lyndon Johnson ached for the trust of today's voters and the respect of tomorrow's scholars...
...country needed a figure to rally round. Then it needed a responsible alternative to Goldwater. Johnson mistook happenstance for deep, wide support and even for the affection he craved. "I'm sure glad," he would say in those days, "we got rid of that image that nobody likes Lyndon...
...narrow sense, Lyndon Johnson could function superlatively under stress. He could rap out hard decisions, maneuver in delicate foreign squabbles, intervene effectively in complex labor disputes. But in the less tangible sphere of sustaining the nation's confidence, understanding the drift of opinion, coping with articulate critics, Johnson was all too vulnerable...