Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Black, area coordinator for ultra-conservative former Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, joined the panelists. He said the United States should invest $40 billion in laser beam technology...
...candidates who won the Illinois Democratic state primary nominations for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of state in shocking upsets are actually followers of reclusive, ultra-right-wing, perennial Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche. Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, two travelers from the Twilight Zone of politics, narrowly defeated the handpicked nominees of Adlai Stevenson III. Stevenson won the Democratic primary for Governor with an overwhelming 88% of the vote...
...Calvin Sutker. Stevenson was both angry and adamant. "I am exploring every legal remedy to purge these extremists from the Democratic ticket," said he. "But one thing I want to make absolutely clear. I will never serve on a ticket with candidates who espouse the hate-filled folly of Lyndon LaRouche and the U.S. Labor Party...
That change, he said, "affected Lyndon Johnson on Vietnam," made him determined not to allow the communists another Asian victory...
Along with his boss Andrei Gromyko, Dobrynin looked Kennedy in the eye and denied there were missiles in Cuba. Did he lie? Probably. But he was forgiven because his untruth was within the bounds of diplomatic duplicity. He negotiated enthusiastically for an arms summit with Lyndon Johnson. The night before announcement of the summit, Dobrynin rushed to tell the President that Soviet troops were moving into Czechoslovakia. End of summit. Another deception? Of course, but again he charmed his way back to credibility...