Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August 1960, that resolution passed-48 to 37. The Democratic majority leader who voted for it himself and who led 47 other members of his party to do the same was Lyndon Baines Johnson. It does make a difference whose ox is gored, doesn...
...first full week of campaigning, Humphrey managed to summon up every demon that has beset him this year: his inability to focus on the essential, his failure to re-establish his independence of Lyndon Johnson, his lack of an efficient campaign organization, his troubles with the dissident Democratic left. Though not really prepared to mount a major campaign swing?Larry O'Brien had barely taken over as manager of a badly disorganized Democratic machine?Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine...
...people who think that U.S. society is somehow sick tend to blame the court for much of the rise in crime, the loosening of morals, the racial conflict and the general air of permissiveness. Most of those complaints have welled up in the acrimonious debate in the Senate over Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to become the nation's 15th Chief Justice. Last week the argument grew angrier, and opposition to Fortas stiffened. As the fight moved toward a climax within the next two weeks, it seemed likely to increase the divisiveness in the land...
Other questions about Fortas nagged the Senators. The objections to his role as Lyndon Johnson's backstairs adviser were heightened by reports that Fortas had substantially rewritten a first version of the President's 1966 State of the Union Message. Some Senators were also bothered by the fact that Chief Justice Earl Warren had not really resigned, but has only opted to retire if and when a successor was agreed upon. Republicans, scenting victory in November, thought that was a ploy to prevent Nixon from naming his own Chief Justice...
...AUTOMATIC PLAN was first described by Thomas Jefferson in 1801 and was urged as recently as 1966 by Lyndon Johnson. It would abolish the electors, award their votes to each state's popular winner, and thus eliminate unpledged and "faithless electors" (17 in the past two decades) who might break their party pledges. Chief drawback of the automatic system: it would not abolish the two features that contribute to the election of minority Presidents: the winner-take-all system, and the unequal weights given to voters in different states...