Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia and the Pacific," the President said in Hawaii last month. He assumes that peace, if it comes, will not dissolve those bonds but secure them in more mutually beneficial ways. Nor will that be an easy task. "We often think about peace as an absence of war," Lyndon Johnson reflected last week. "But in fact peace is a struggle, an achievement, an endless effort to convert hostility into negotiation, bloody violence into politics, and hate into reconciliation...
Vance first caught Lyndon Johnson's eye when he came to Washington in 1957 as special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, then chaired...
...draft" was visible principally to the weather eye of its chief beholder and beneficiary. Though Rocky tried gamely to defend his withdrawal in March as correct at the time, there seemed little doubt that it had been a blunder compounded by the subsequent developments he mentioned, most notably Lyndon Johnson's abdication and Nixon's continued strength in the polls (the latest Gallup showed him beating all three Democrats). If Rockefeller continued his coyness, his political scouts reported, Nixon probably would be unbeatable...
...convention delegates to McCarthy. Because Nebraska filings closed before Bobby announced, no Kennedy-committed candidates are listed on the ballot to select the 22 at-large delegates. The at-large ballot is a bewildering laundry list of 75 names-21 identified as uncommitted, 30 as committed to Lyndon Johnson, and 24 as committed to McCarthy. If the Minnesotan's partisans carefully vote only for his delegates while the rest of the ballots are scattered among the 51 uncommitted and Johnson delegates, McCarthy could come away richer in convention strength, if not in popular votes...
Student Cheer. Whatever the outcome, at least one politician, Lyndon Johnson, was keeping his options open, hinting at his Washington press conference that he might not campaign for the party this year if the ticket does not suit him. "I would not want to go into that matter at this time," he told a reporter. "I'll be glad to visit with you about it after the convention and we see what the situation...