Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was once another glittering paper in Manhattan. During its 131 tumultuous years, the New York Herald Tribune often seemed larger than the life it tried to record. Legends stalked its pages: Lucius Beebe, Walter Lippmann, Grantland Rice. Abraham Lincoln courted the paper's support; so did Lyndon Johnson. The Tribune was glamorous in part because of its precarious, hand-to-mouth existence. The paper's death in 1966 lent its history the final stuff of which enduring myths are made: a sad ending...
...cataclysmic consequences. In making their arguments, the sages of Foggy Bottom created a bogeyman fierce enough to frighten America into a war in Viet Nam that the Wise Men came to believe was unnecessary. Acheson was especially acerbic about the turn of events in Southeast Asia. His impression of Lyndon Johnson: "A real centaur -- part man, part horse's ass." Astute political history has rarely been this engaging and engrossing...
Cicero is an unlikely hero, Segal says, because for most of his life, he was the quintessential politician. "He was a Lyndon Johnson type. He was very successful, and basically bent with the wind. He was never a moral leader," says the writer. "Cicero was a major figure in contributing to the world of great power, great money and great corruption, but at the end of his life, he fought against this corruption. It was heroic, because he didn't have to do it. He could have just led a rich, quiet and safe life in retirement...
Furthermore, given the fact that every administration in recent memory has sought to deceive the press in order to cover up its wrong-doing, a la Richard Nixon, or has tried to use the press as a tool for its foreign policy goals--as Lyndon Johnson did during the Vietnam War, and as Reagan has during the turmoil in Grenada and Nicaragua--reporters have little excuse for being duped by this Administration's latest ploy...
...everyone from Pat Robertson to Jesse Jackson to Lyndon LaRouche can agree that America has a long way to go. We all know that the only people really happy with the way things are are those Democratic tax-and-spenders still left in office in Massachusetts...