Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation billions of dollars into debt to ease the Depression and fight World War II. Concern about paying the bills was one of his lesser burdens. It took John Kennedy only a few minutes to decide he could find $40 billion to finance a trip to the moon. Lyndon Johnson's exultation that we could have "guns and butter" was true, though he mismanaged the account...
...glossy and seamless. In The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, CBS's Mike Wallace, his voice resonating with authority, charged that there had been a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in Viet Nam in order to deceive President Lyndon Johnson and the American people into believing that the U.S. was winning...
...degree may be the worst indictment of Dartmouth in the book. But more importantly, there goes Ben Hart again, trying to claim art and Babe Ruth for the Republicans. The dispiritedness and aimlessness of liberals today feeds this sort of foolishness. Liberals themselves made similar claims in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson and a slew of liberal Congressmen seemed to sweep Republicans into eternal oblivion. The Republicans came back swinging...
...normal slowing after a period of rapid expansion. Such pauses for breath frequently aroused fears of a slump during the economic recoveries that occurred in the 1960s and '70s. Recalled Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota economist and the chief economic adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: "I remember Kennedy being terribly worried in 1962 that there would be a recession, and on the basis of very much the same kind of thing we are looking at here. We assured him that that would not be the case, and, thank goodness, we were right...
...Lawyer David Boies promptly tried to discredit McNamara by showing that he too had deceived Congress and the public. McNamara testified that he had believed ever since early 1966 that the war was not winnable and had expressed his doubt to President Lyndon Johnson. Boies read back snippets from what McNamara had said at the time. In August 1967, for instance, he told a Senate committee that the war was "not a no-win program." When a reporter asked that same year if the U.S. was mired in a stalemate in Viet Nam, McNamara replied, "Heavens, no!" On the stand...