Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disarmament field "one of my major regrets." Kennedy's efforts to "get the genie back in the bottle" had some success in 1963's limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and he considered it one of his greatest achievements. Now, in the waning months of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson can take satisfaction from a comparable feat-and can claim credit for having set the stage for another that could prove even more historic...
Still, as Lyndon Johnson put it, man must try to "shape his destiny in the nuclear age," and the President solemnly pledged all U.S. resources to help the world move "into the light of sanity and security...
...Ranch, the diplomats were later feted by the Johnsons at the U.S. Pavilion and treated to the traditional high jinks of an American Fourth of July celebration-in-cluding fireworks, a picnic atop HemisFair's 622-ft. tower and speechmaking. San Antonio's Independence Day orator was Lyndon Johnson himself, who departed from the standard rhetoric to liken the hopes of the founding fathers to those of the Latin nations today. The goals of those who met in Philadelphia, he told the ambassadors, "are the goals now of the New World...
After reviewing a contingent of Viet Nam-bound Marines in California, Lyndon Johnson strode purposefully toward what he thought was his helicopter. "That's your helicopter over there, sir," said an officer, steering the President toward a different craft. "Son," replied Johnson evenly, "they are all my helicopters...
...chronological record nor an academic analysis, this "book of glimpses" is an intensely personal look at a baffling and often infuriating figure "whose great energies and desires even he is sometimes at a loss to explain." Sidey shows how deeply the hard times in the Texas hill country affected Lyndon Johnson, how he maintains the conviction that "the world is simply Johnson City in megatons." Sidey also describes how Johnson's struggle for wealth and power left him with an "incipient chip on the shoulder," how his laudable legislative career shaped-and in some ways misshaped-his presidency...