Word: lyndon
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...that Kennedy would be out of it if he didn't win both Maine and New Hampshire. yet his competitive defeat in the Maine caucus ended up as a moral victory, and now Carter is in the historically unenviable position of heading the pack into New Hampshire. Lyndon Johnson needed a big win here in 1968, Ed Muskie in 1972; Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern refused to give it to them, and the campaigns turned in favor of the two narrow losers. Unless Carter repeates his Iowa performance, gaining a majority, the momentum will shift...
...hung up in double digits and unemployment would be growing. But for all the President's candor, the policy he outlined in his message and the new budget that preceded it were getting blasts last week even from Democrats. Said Arthur Okun, chief economic adviser to President Lyndon Johnson: "This is a program for muddling through an election year. It does not make hard choices...
Ellie nods in agreement and says she never buys pistachios anymore because they come from Iran. Ellie recently watched Lyndon Larouche, an ultra-conservative Democratic candidate on television, and she says he made a lot of sense--"a lot more sense than the other candidates," and she wishes he would run for mayor...
What all this means for the New Hampshire primary is unclear. People seem to like Ronald Reagan. George Bush has the image of a self-made man, if he has any image at all. More tellingly, though, there is a certain amount of support even among Republicans for one Lyndon Larouche, a "Democrat." Lyndon's workers (you may have seen them holding "Nuclear power is safer then Kennedy's car" signs in the Square), are persistent, and his campaign is well-greased. A half-hour of free t.v. time to communicate his message last week earned him some interest...
...Barry Lyndon (1975). Stanley Kubrick proves that landscape (also costume, decor and the play of light) can substitute for plot and dialogue to reveal the character...