Word: lyndon
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...liberal Democratic Congressman from Kentucky since 1949, chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee since 1967 and one of the wiliest, most determined minds ever to hide behind a country-bumpkin exterior; of an apparent heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In the 1960s Perkins helped steer Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty legislation through Congress; he had also pushed relentlessly for federal aid for vocational training in 1963 and for primary and secondary education in 1965. Perkins later became probably the most outspoken House critic of Reagan Administration budget cuts...
Jimmy Carter out of office. But in 1964 income jumped 6.9%, and President Lyndon Johnson trounced Barry Goldwater. For 1984, Wharton Econometrics predicts that real disposable income will advance 6.2%. Says Wescott: "Historical analysis suggests that the economic playing field is tilted quite heavily in the incumbent's favor this time." Michael Evans, an economic consultant in Washington, is less cautious about his political forecast. "It is a landslide for Reagan," he says...
Karnow cites Dean Rusk, secretary of state to John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson and a man involved in Far East policy for three decades, as a prime example of someone who failed to use history properly. "I went down to Athens. Georgia to interview Dean Rusk, and said what was your mindset, what was your thinking, and he said. 'I was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1933, and I was there at the Oxford Union that night when they voted not to fight for King and country. I could remember that the Berlin Radio used that...
...managed to leave behind a legacy of liberal legislation that has survived three Republican Administrations. In a 1977 poll of 1,000 leading Capitol Hill figures, he was named the top Senator of the past 75 years. (Humphrey, then fatally ill with cancer, responded to the news: "Jesus Christ, Lyndon Johnson's going to be sore as hell about this.") Solberg, whose biography is the first to benefit from Humphrey's papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, recounts his subject's career in impressive detail, but stumbles when he tries to explain Humphrey's self-defeating...
...comedian Pat Paulsen playing a candidate, or like Hubert Humphrey on the verge of tears. Even the delegates who cheered Mondale most ardently at Moscone Center would admit that, whatever his strengths, he is not entirely the candidate of their dreams. But who would be? Jimmy Carter? George McGovern? Lyndon Johnson? John Kennedy? There may be something in the last. The Democrats' model of the perfect candidate, a Platonic form buried somewhere in the subconscious of the party, may indeed be John Kennedy, the slain prince. Gary Hart seemed to think as much during the campaign. He quoted...