Word: lyndon
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...radical. Eventually he chose to fight liberal fights from the front bench, sacrificing individualism for advancement in the Sen ate and then to the vice presidency, losing old friends and associations and gaining new ones along the way. Now he has the backing of George Meanv and Henry Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Edward Kennedy, Richard Daley and George Ball...
Freedom from any such pressure has blinded the nonvoters to a key point. A leader can shape the country's moral choices by taking a no-compromise stand on a great issue, such as the Viet Nam war. Both McCarthy and Lyndon Johnson did just that, risking their political careers in the process. But voters have a different role: to convey their positions through the ballot, the most effective weapon they have. A conscientious citizen can hardly pass off that role easily. Surely the U.S. right not to vote, or to write in sure losers, also carries with...
...once the envied passport to a life of gaieté parisienne. Since Charles de Gaulle's relations with Washington turned frosty in the early 1960s, however, the post has had some of the aspects of representing the U.S. in a hostile land. There were those who suspected Lyndon Johnson of shipping Sargent Shriver to the Siberian salt mines when the President picked him to succeed Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Paris. Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver has brought...
President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam...
Sensitive to the bruised, bitter feelings of his crusaders, McCarthy is caught in a delicate irony partly of his own making. The very cause for McCarthy's brave defiance of Lyndon Johnson last winter--America's idiotic substitution of military hardware for perceptive diplomacy abroad--is now, in a new sense, the most respectable reason for backing Johnson's head cheerleader...