Word: lyndon
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...NDPC--which is not affiliated with the National Democratic Committee (NDC)--is just another name for what used to be the United States Labor Party, an organization headed by 1984 presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche...
...breaking of the sound barrier in 1947 to the lift-off of the last Mercury capsule in 1963). It ranges from Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club (a raffish test-pilot bar at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert) to the Kennedy White House; from Lyndon Johnson asnarl in his limousine to the deep, deceptively serene blue of the upper atmosphere where "the demons" of the sky live. It is noisy with the roar of jet engines, the blare of military minds and the bawdiness of hospital humor as the astronaut candidates are subjected to exhaustive physical...
...then flash ahead a few scenes. It is the day of a launch, and Glenn is on the phone with his wife, a painful stutterer. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is fuming in his limousine outside the Glenn house, a NASA official is badgering Glenn, but the astronaut stands firm. "Annie, listen to me. I will back you all the way, one hundred percent," says Glenn. "I don't want Johnson or any of the rest of them to put so much as one toe inside our house." Cut to a weepy but relieved Annie Glenn, then cut back...
...fourth and fifth hours depict President Lyndon Johnson as a tragic figure, torn between desire for peace and belief that the U.S. owed its South Vietnamese ally a debt of loyalty. The sixth hour describes the North Vietnamese, both as they viewed themselves and as they were seen by American prisoners of war, whom they abused and tortured. Subsequent shows chronicle the attempt to "Vietnamize" the conflict by withdrawing U.S. troops, the simultaneous expansion of the war to Cambodia and Laos, North Viet Nam's public relations triumph despite the military failure of its 1968 Tet offensive, the protracted...
...remaining three candidates--City Councillor Frederick C. Langone, Socialist Party candidate Eloise Linger, and Lyndon H. LaRouche disciple Michael Gelber--support appears scanty