Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many may argue that opening the electoral process to third-party candidates would benefit fringe extremists like the followers of former Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who won places on the ballot for state offices in the Illinois primary early this spring...
...proposal that could quarantine AIDS victims, sponsored by followers of Lyndon LaRouche, has gathered nearly 700,000 signatures to win a spot on the ballot in a California referendum this fall. -- Despite a voter referendum in Maine last month in which citizens soundly rejected an antipornography measure, large-scale efforts to restrict the sale of sexually explicit material are under way in more than a dozen states from Massachusetts to Arizona...
...have"). But by 1990 the 707s will become almost extinct by factory decree. Spare parts will be scarce, the engines too noisy for flight rules. Reagan's 707 has 1,024,897 miles and 42 countries on it. A lobbying effort for this big bird was mounted back in Lyndon Johnson's time by the Air Force, the Secret Service, the White House aides, the media and the aviation experts. Said a Boeing enthusiast: "I want to see our President land around this world in the biggest and best America has." Added a former Air Force One pilot: "The President...
...awarded the Cole Prize of the American Mathematics Society in 1944, and in 1965 received the National Medal of Science from President Lyndon Johnson. He was awarded honorary degrees from Holy Cross in 1959, Brandeis in 1965, and Purdue in 1974. In 1981, he received an honorary degree from Harvard and in the same year, received the Wolf Prize from the Wolf Foundation in Israel...
...celebrated speech earlier this year, Robb, a son-in-law of Lyndon Johnson, attacked the Democrats' traditional focus on racism as the cause of black poverty and on welfare programs as a way to alleviate it. At last week's session he again charged that the welfare system "may be subsidizing the spread of self-destructive behavior in our poor communities...