Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson, having withdrawn from the race to heal national divisions, barges back in for the sake of Democratic unity. He and Eugene McCarthy reason together until Lyndon's logic or Gene's exhaustion persuades McCarthy to run for Vice President. And Hubert Humphrey? Franklin Roosevelt set a precedent for dealing with discarded Veeps when he dumped Henry Wallace in 1944 and then appointed him Secretary of Commerce...
...Lyndon Johnson, "the critical question that we face is whether we can, as one people, hold fast to our faith in each other and in this nation's purpose." There seemed to be something of a shortage of faith. Louis Harris took a survey after the assassination and reported that two out of three Americans believed there was something deeply wrong with their country; 53% agreed with the statement that "law enforcement has broken down and lawlessness has taken over...
Rivers also appeals to Democratic and Republican South Carolina conservatives with his hard-line views on the war and on integration-although, as the son of an impoverished turpentine distiller from Gumville, he has voted frequently for Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. His constituents were not unsympathetic 18 months ago when he proposed that the U.S. "flatten Hanoi and let world opinion go fly a kite." In 1948 he cried that Harry Truman's anti-lynching bill would "lynch the Constitution," and as late as 1956 was defining N.A.A.C.P as "the National Association for the Advancement...
...Lyndon Johnson last week addressed two appeals to the Kremlin for progress on arms controls, a subject he clearly holds vital to the peace effort of his last months as president...
Well, not quite. Would you believe Lyndon Johnson? Hubert Humphrey? Dean Rusk? Robert McNamara? Defense Secretary Clark Clifford? A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary...