Word: lyndon
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...category of voter; one exit poll found that only those aged 60 or over delivered the expected margins for Mondale. In the judgment of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire: "It's just the damnedest thing I ever...
...most recently in the spring of 1982. In public they seem distant, rarely glancing at each other or touching. Hart is an avid reader. Not long ago, a reporter suggested he read Ironweed, William Kennedy's prizewinning novel; Hart did. He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a dissection of Henry Kissinger. Since 1980 Hart and Maine Senator William Cohen have been writing a novel about international terrorism...
Many will argue against the necessity of such a direct federal effort and instead will advocate massive investment in education and job training programs so that lower-income Blacks can obtain the skills necessary to acquire decent jobs. (This in fact, was the approach of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.) However, that proposal has a number of fundamental flaws. First of all, even if such an education and retraining effort succeeded, there is very little evidence to suggest that there are enough jobs available to employ most of the new workers. As I noted before, the number of new jobs...
Presidents sometimes seem to resemble their houses. The great head and strong jaw of Franklin Roosevelt fitted in with his stately Hudson River mansion at Hyde Park. Lyndon Johnson, weathered and slit-eyed, sometimes looked as if he came with the clapboards of his boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Reagan's home seems tall and open like...
...When Lyndon Johnson had a serious heart attack in 1955, a lot of people thought he would be a semi-invalid. His doctor, Vice Admiral George Burkley, found that Johnson's heart functioned normally through five years of the presidency. When Johnson, believing he would lose the 1968 election, reluctantly went home, he seemed to lose purpose, reverted to bad eating and smoking habits, and died in four years...