Word: lyndon
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...turn it back." L.B.J. was "an elemental force" whose Viet Nam War Strout deplored, but then Strout goes to his files and unerringly turns up a note he made to himself while reporting Johnson's 1965 "We shall overcome" speech. The note read: "I shall always like Lyndon Johnson for his civil rights speech...
POLITICAL LEADERS in America enjoy no right to a passive audience and that, as recent history has shown, is a very good thing. In the final two year of his embattled Presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson was repeatedly shouted down by anti-war protestors. Eventually Johnson stopped speaking at all but military installations, but according to biographer Doris Kearns, the loud protest had a more lasting effect. Johnson's heightened awareness of the depth of his opposition, hammered home by his public appearances led him to withdraw from the 1968 Presidential race--and to call a halt to years of bloody...
Stratton may decide not to tell his story directly to the jury. To bolster his side's credibility, his lawyers will call on Mailer and Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and Lyndon Johnson confidante. Mailer, who has known Stratton for more than 15 years and jointly owns a house in Maine with him, was in Portland last week and ready to testify. "Dick is a person of much integrity and courage," he says. No matter how many points character witnesses score for Stratton, the defense must counter the evidence that he was a participant. Explains Yale Law Professor Burke...
Church to state still do not belong together. The Rev. Billy Graham used to pray with Lyndon Johnson during the Viet Nam War, making L.B.J. proud. But when Graham questioned the war, Johnson felt betrayed. Graham was right back in the White House praying with Richard Nixon, only to be shaken himself when himself revealed Nixon covering up crimes. Jimmy Carter, himself an amateur evangelist, had his worst days when he put his faith (and our future) in his goodness instead of the Sixth Fleet. But even he never mixed God and Government as baldly as Reagan did in Orlando...
...friend Horace Busby, who used to work for Lyndon Johnson, fired off a good shot the other day in his newsletter. He wrote that the Democratic National Committee seemed to gloat when unemployment went above 10%. "Political perversity," he called it. I'm going to go over to the D.N.C. if unemployment goes below 10% and get one of their handouts to send to you. Don't expect too much. Its adjectives for rising unemployment include "criminal," "devastating," "disastrous." Those for falling unemployment include "temporary," "doubtful" and "unexplained...