Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Lyndon Johnson inherited the Oval Office late in 1963, he brought with him Sam Houston Johnson, a sharp-witted drunk with a predilection for the fast life. "I guess Lyndon wanted me close by so that he could keep a big-brotherly eye on all my extra-curricular activities," Sam wrote in his 1969 book, My Brother Lyndon...
...many Democrats that year opposed the war in Viet Nam so strongly that incumbent Lyndon Johnson chose not to seek reelection, and although the convention dutifully picked Johnson's Vice President, Humphrey lost the election at least partly because of the discontent that the convention left behind...
...confidentiality between doctor and patient. But the variety of intimate matters now bandied about is without apparent limits. On talk shows like Phil Donahue's, ordinary people regularly recount stories of emotional disturbance, marital discord, incest. Men chat about their vasectomies, women about their hysterectomies. The spectacle of Lyndon B. Johnson flashing his surgical scar to the world, so vulgar at the time, seems comparatively genteel in retrospect...
When President Lyndon Johnson once showed up for some morning ceremonial duties in a gray suit and brown shoes, the people traveling with him were immediately alert for a change in the day's doings. Johnson was fastidious about the trappings of office, and even the slight dissonance of brown and gray hinted a new mood or schedule...
...newly created Congressional Budget Office, joined the Brookings Institute in 1957 as a research fellow and later became a senior fellow. In 1966 she became deputy assistant secretary for program analysis in the Department of Health Education and Welfare, a position that she held until former President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her assistant secretary for planning and evaluation...