Word: lyndon
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...Zimmer? Lyndon Larouche...
Detroit, July 1967. The worst riot of the decade erupted on a muggy night when police raided an after-hours drinking club. At the height of the violence, President Lyndon Johnson sent in the U.S. Army, and the National Guard fired machine guns from Sherman tanks. The seven-day toll: 43 killed, 2,000 injured, 7,000 arrested and 5,000 left homeless...
Christmas trees. When yellow grit from Nebraska sifted through the White House doors during the Dust Bowl years, F.D.R. became an avid student of the causes of the drought and possible defenses against the blowing topsoil. Lyndon Johnson used to tell how he won Roosevelt's approval for a dam on the lower Colorado River by enticing the President with pictures of various other dams, a subject dear to Roosevelt's heart...
...even invited to join the G.O.P., an honor he declined. Again against the odds, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958. He became a skilled legislator with an instinct for timely compromise and a deep knowledge of environmental affairs. He won the ultimate accolade from President Lyndon Johnson: "He's one of the few liberals who's a match for the Southern legislative craftsmen...
...President. For instance, McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser from 1961 to '66, was a forceful intellect, but he never shouldered Rusk aside. The reason was John Kennedy, a man who studied world events and the shifts of power and had seasoned views of America's role. Lyndon Johnson, the domestic impresario, was less certain. He needed help and turned to Rusk, Robert McNamara, his Defense Secretary, and Walt Rostow, his NSC adviser. The value of being physically close to the President was fully realized in those years. L.B.J. was profoundly influenced by the fact that Rostow was always...