Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carpenter, who served as an aide to then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson, spoke last night in an effort to promote her recently-published autobiography, Getting Better All the Time...
...many Republicans, it is the dream ticket. Such a bold play could shake the Vice President's cautious and bland image, giving a boost to his campaign. The bright and engaging Liddy Dole, who has served every President since Lyndon Johnson, would put extra zip into the G.O.P. drive. The choice of a woman could also help narrow the Democratic edge among female voters, who make up more than half the electorate...
...Baton Rouge. Teeley and Fuller huddle about Dole's suggestions that Panama's General Noriega received millions from the CIA while Bush was director. Teeley then calls an impromptu press conference and says to the assembled reporters, "It sounds like we're in a campaign with Lyndon Larouche." The starved national reporters scribble furiously. Finally, they have something as spicy as the jambalaya. But neither Fuller nor Teeley has a chance to discuss with Bush how he should respond to Dole's insinuations. "I can handle it," says Bush as he heads for a local TV interview. "I find...
...enough in his law office on New Hampshire Avenue and you will hear him deal with a dazzling cross section of Washington's notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper Columnist Robert Novak. Says George Christian, press secretary in Lyndon Johnson's White House: "One of Strauss's many strengths is that although he's a good Democrat, he can also be bipartisan when the situation requires it." Perhaps Speaker Wright had something like that in mind when he offered this toast to Strauss at a recent private dinner...
...programs that the elderly are fighting to preserve were created a generation ago, when the reform-minded leaders of the 1960s vowed to protect senior citizens from the shameful destitution that had terrorized earlier generations. At the time that Lyndon Johnson launched his immense rescue mission, the Great Society, more than a quarter of all old people lived below the poverty line. In the popular imagination, being old usually meant a frail and lonely dependency, in which old women lived on cat food in spartan apartments and relied on busy children or social workers for a ride to the doctor...