Word: lyndon
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...followers of Political Extremist Lyndon LaRouche are usually found in airports distributing literature, but increasingly they are finding themselves in court as well. A federal grand jury in Boston has charged several supporters of the ultraconservative conspiracy theorist with credit-card fraud. Last week a grand jury in Loudoun County, Va., indicted 16 supporters and five groups affiliated with LaRouche, a perennial presidential candidate who lives on an estate in the county. Within hours, police teams had arrested 13 people on charges of selling unregistered securities. According to the prosecution, the groups persuaded people to lend money to the LaRouche...
...last year -- yes again. (It was during the two years of "no" and "a bit" -- 1984 through 1986, when Congress first banned all aid, then only military aid -- that Colonel North sought to circumvent Congress by funneling aid from other sources, including the Iran arms sale.) Lyndon Johnson once reminded critics that he was the only President we had. This is the only Congress we have. And by 1986 it did appear as if Congress had crossed a divide. After lengthy debate, both Houses voted military aid to the contras...
Doris Kearns Goodwin needs no prodding. Her generational saga pays generous tribute to the near silent partners in Irish-American history's most important , merger. She offers little that is new and no shocks. If anything, Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and the wife of former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, softens the impact of the familiar political and sexual scandals that litter the path from the old sod to the Oval Office. Her approach is to balance the requirements of scholarship (Goodwin was a professor of government at Harvard) with the demands of the literary marketplace...
...Sounds familiar," suggests one of Washington's distinguished barristers, who used to work for Eisenhower. Congress lives on details. Most Presidents hate them. "That man does not deserve to be President," roared Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson one day about Ike. Reason: Johnson had asked the President about several programs and pieces of legislation, and Ike wasn't sure what they were about and was utterly baffled over which committees were considering them...
Over in the speech shop the writers are studying Lyndon Johnson's State of the Union message of 1967, when he arrived in the well of the House with a war going sour and a Congress that had just added 50 new Republicans. "I should like to say to the members of the opposition -- whose numbers, if I am not mistaken, seem to have increased somewhat -- that the genius of the American political system has always been best expressed through creative debate that offers choices and reasonable alternatives," said Johnson. "Throughout our history, great Republicans and Democrats have seemed...