Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates, however, the second half of the campaign year will doubtless be as unorthodox as the first. Kennedy and McCarthy may eventually succeed only in canceling each other out, but together, their challenge of party discipline and the response it has evoked have had a rippling effect in which Lyndon Johnson's departure is merely one large circle. Political leaders hear all too loudly the bubbling of events, and sense the need to respond...
Hubert Humphrey bounces into the Oval Room of the White House, exuding more than his usual good spirits. "By golly, by gum, gee whillikers, don't you look wonderful, Mr. President!" Lyndon Johnson replies with his usual frankness: "All right, cut the crap, Hubie. I got somethin' to tell ya." Thus the President informs the Vice President that he does not intend to run for reelection, that the way is now open for a Humphrey candidacy. "Hello, Muriel Bird," the Veep burbles into the phone five minutes later. "Have I got good news...
...just about divided Actors' Equity between them (see box). There have been some notable crossovers. Gene has lured Rob ert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) from touch-football games at Hickory Hill, while Bobby has corralled Carol Channing, who warbled her way into the White House with Hello, Lyndon! in 1964. Artists, writers and other intellectuals are also pretty evenly divided between the two. Bobby has a corner on famed athletes. With just the names he has now, he would probably sweep both the World Series and the football Super Bowl-though he might have trouble in the National...
Wanted: Wilbur Mills. The arrests were made when more than 200 demonstrators marched to the Hill to demand that Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his potent House Ways and Means Committee repeal recent amendments limiting eligibility for the Aid for Dependent Children program. Mills has supplanted Lyndon Johnson as the pet hate of Negro militants-they plan to put up "Wanted" posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President...
...varying degree, polls account for the biggest surprises of this surprising election year. George Romney dropped out of the presidential race because his private polls showed him losing badly to Richard Nixon. Robert Kennedy dropped in only after his polls convinced him that he could beat Lyndon Johnson in the California primary. In renouncing a second term, Johnson was influenced by a Gallup poll showing that only 26% of the people approved his handling of the Viet...