Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate by killing a bill, already passed by the House, that would have cleared the way for the encounter by temporarily suspending FCC equal-time regulations. Dirksen pointed out that Senate Democrats, including Hubert Humphrey, had opposed a similar bill four years ago to permit debates between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater -and had done so for the same tactical reasons. Dirksen might also have noted that when Humphrey was in the lead during contention for the Democratic nomination, he steadfastly refused to tangle with Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in a debate...
...failed in at least one notable instance. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy demanded that, in exchange for his backing, Humphrey promise to support a change of government in Saigon, reform the draft and overhaul Democratic Party machinery. Replied Humphrey: "I am not prone to start meeting conditions." While Lyndon Johnson made his first formal speech on the Vice President's behalf during the week, he was all but overshadowed once again by his party's dissenters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh charged that his fellow Democrats in Washington had accomplished little during the past four years...
Gorey: I don't agree with that. It seems to me that Nixon could easily fall into the same traps that Lyndon Johnson fell into, even more readily than Hubert Humphrey. One reason is Nixon's insulation...
Steven Imhoff's movie, about a collect phone call to Lyndon Johnson, and Kevin Rafferty's, romantically entitled Balls, were the wildest of the lot. Imhoff's movie sets a sound track of himself making his collect call on top of a mad melee of still photographs and film clips punctuated by blanks on the screen. The film wheels on crazily in visual free association above the voices of the cool boy on the phone, the confused operator, and the indignant presidential receptionist...
...Rolling Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls his own" and "Lyndon loves Mao," plus a bit of familiar bathroom doggerel...