Word: lyndon
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ENGAGED. Luci Baines Johnson, 36, daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Ian Turpin, 38, a British banker based on Grand Cayman Island; both for the second time; in Austin. Her 1966 marriage to Patrick Nugent ended in divorce 13 years later...
Jimmy Carter suggested that he might have greatness in him, a quality that historians have not yet detected. Lyndon Johnson once looked into the face of a young black admirer and told friends later that he could tell the lad felt he was in the presence of "the Lord God Almighty." L.B.J. proved all too mortal...
DIED. Charles S. Murphy, 74, influential adviser to Presidents; of heart disease; in Anne Arundel County, Md. A reticent lawyer and loyal Democrat, Murphy served as John Kennedy's Under Secretary of Agriculture and Lyndon Johnson's chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, but he was most influential as a member of Harry Truman's "little Cabinet" of advisers and friends, who talked strategy in the White House late into the night...
Analyst Horace Busby, a former Lyndon Johnson aide, went to Princeton the other day and warned that "unbridled partisanship implants within our free system the seeds of its destruction." A collision is coming, he said. "Americans are demanding performance, not partisanship, not provocations, not promises." The Democrats in their midterm convention in Philadelphia last summer seemed like a collection of caucuses (gays, women, blacks, et cetera) fiercely loyal only to themselves. If there was a transcending theme, nobody caught it amid all the self-centered statements and accusations...
Tower, 57, rose from obscurity as a political science professor to win the Sen ate seat vacated in 1961 when Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He is known in the Senate for his acerbic wit, keen mind and temper- and his ardent advocacy of military spending...