Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIDWAY into the standard oratory, the image began to change. Nixon made some self-effacing comments: "It's a good thing I'm running for President and not in a beauty contest." This was not Lyndon Johnson; Nixon would not make photographers take his "good" profile. More important, a semi-believable note of humility also began to creep into the bombast of Nixon's "united party--we're going to win" oratory...
...point where it simply cannot be counted on to get out the vote. Nor is the situation atypical. In practically every northern, urbanized state-the kind Humphrey must carry if he is to have any chance of winning the election-the party's machinery is in desperate disrepair Lyndon Johnson during the past five years has done little to reverse the trend, may even have accentuated it by his indifference...
...President and Moon Missing, Sorel created "Sorel's Bestiary" for Ramparts. Every month he classified by species one of the public figures he liked least, The late Francis Cardinal Spellman became a red bird called Spellmanus Bellicosus, riding a missile and clutching an olive branch in his teeth. Lyndon Johnson appeared as a crocodile. Truman Capote swam in a murky Central Park lake as a swellfish (libris vendor...
...Lyndon Johnson was backed by so many newspapers in 1964 that many Republicans wondered whether the nation's publishers were abandoning the party usually favored by a majority of them. But the G.O.P. is not worrying any more. With only three weeks left in the presidential campaign, the clear choice of the editorial pages is Richard Nixon. Not that the switch has been entirely wholehearted; the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for one, admitted that the decision was hardly "easy." But, said the paper, it had become disenchanted with Humphrey as a "man of the old order. He is campaigning...
...only U.S. President not included -at his request-is Lyndon Johnson. However, the gallery owns the portrait of him commissioned from Peter Hurd and then rejected by Johnson as "the ugliest thing I ever saw." It will go on view in February...