Word: lyndon
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Civilized Values. More important than what such activist leaders claim, however, is how other segments of the public may react. It was discontent with the war, felt not only by young radicals but also by businessmen and many other groups, that turned Lyndon Johnson from another term. U.S. business is more than ever on the side of an early peace, as evidenced in part by Wall Street: new peace probes or rumors generally send stock prices jumping upward. Still, it is the campuses that offer the most vocal opposition and provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic...
...James Buchanan called the presidency "a crown of thorns," and Herbert Hoover pronounced it "a hair shirt." Lyndon Johnson spoke in sepulchral tones of "the awesome burden." There is an article of faith, enshrined in the national mythology, that the leader of the most powerful country on earth must hold the world's most onerous and agonizing job. Knowing how hard the President is working not only reassures Americans, it inspires some in a small way to carry on their own more or less demanding tasks...
...extreme version of carrying on the presidency (or any other executive job) is the hectic style of Lyndon Johnson. Its danger is that it can exhaust the nerves and make mistakes inevitable. But the other extreme may be equally dangerous: for a President to insist on an air of effortless efficiency, to wrap himself in an illusion of serenity. It is a species of solipsism ("L'état c'est moi") for a President to imagine that the national realities always conform to his own mood of equanimity...
...that Richard Nixon is in the White House, the atmosphere has turned medium cool; Lyndon Johnson's always verged on blowup. Nixon's official photographer, Ollie Atkins, 53, stays in the background. He usually sees the President only when other photographers do. He has been called on by Nixon for special photographs fewer than two dozen times. Nixon likes his privacy, and Atkins rarely goes along with him to the golf course or other leisure activities. As for the Nixon family, Atkins has so far taken just a few pictures. Says Atkins: "President Nixon considers his family...
...This is not Lyndon Johnson's school. It's a school named for Lyndon Johnson. No one is going to be whispering in my ear and telling me how to run it." So said former Postmaster General and Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski, eager to declare his independence but knowing to whom he owed his appointment as dean of the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs. Delighted with the job, Gronouski said that he hopes Barry Goldwater, "some of Nixon's people" and even old Great Society gadfly William Fulbright will join...