Word: lyndon
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...Random House; 441 pages; $19.95). Executive chef at that august address for 21 years, the Swiss-born Haller retired in October, just as this reverential book was coming off the presses. Most of the recipes are for hearty, homey family favorites that reflect the regional backgrounds of Presidents from Lyndon Johnson (who favored Texas-style chili con carne, lamb hash and deer sausage), through Gerald Ford (lusty, German-influenced fare like sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage, apple pancakes and a revolting curried tuna casserole), to Ronald Reagan (hamburger soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal...
...Lyndon Johnson knew how to compromise better than anyone. Clifford, L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense, remembers March 31, 1968, when Johnson tried to cut his last and biggest deal with Washington. He went on the air to "speak to you of peace" not war. It was the end of escalation in Viet Nam. Washington, with its peace marchers, Senate harangues, angry poets, editorial cartoons and leaky colonels, had stopped him. He left for the ranch because he knew enough to know he had to yield...
...Ronald Reagan, television smarts are required job skills for presidential candidates. The Republicans, like the Democratic candidates a few weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation, governed a state or even served...
...American hostages were at last flown out of Iran -- Ronald Reagan became the sixth President to enter the White House in 20 years. That was an alarming turnover and a sort of enigmatic commentary on the problems of leadership in America in the late 20th century. John Kennedy: assassinated. Lyndon Johnson: driven from office. Richard Nixon: forced to resign. Gerald Ford: an unelected President, rejected at the polls. Jimmy Carter: buried in a landslide. Commentators began to wonder whether Americans had a streak of the regicide in them. Going into Reagan's fifth year, however, Americans began to think...
Dwight D. Eisenhower opened the gates of Camp David to Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1959. Lyndon B. Johnson rendezvoused with Aleksei Kosygin at a college in Glassboro...