Word: lyndon
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...keep dancing around the fire," observed South Carolina's Democratic Senator Fritz Rollings last week. "Now we must put up or shut up." Tennessee Republican Howard Baker, probably the Senate's most effective Majority Leader since the days of Lyndon Johnson, agrees: "We've got to do it this week" (see following story). Informally, the contending parties facing off along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue have set a midweek deadline for ending four weeks of delicate, closed-door negotiations over the budget...
Following John Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson en joyed a burst of support from the Congress he knew so well, but that romance lasted only 18 months. Says Political Scientist Ornstein: "We have never had sustained congressional-presidential unity for even one full term...
WHEN PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas in mid-1968 to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States, he had no idea of the controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an Associate Justice in 1965--had continued to council Johnson on political matters while sitting on the Court. With his nomination hopelessly stalled in the Senate Fortas withdrew his name from consideration in early October. Within a year, he had resigned from the Court entirely, pressured out by those who accused...
Murray, 39, spent six years studying the effectiveness of various Government spending programs for the American Institutes for Research, a nonpolitical Washington-based think tank. After leaving A.I.R. last year to become an independent consultant, Murray began to study the impact of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society on the level of poverty. To his surprise, Murray found that the prevalence of poverty in the U.S. had fallen just as rapidly during the Eisenhower years, when social spending was much lower...
...noted for his superlative legal craftsmanship, which also became a hallmark of the influential law firm he helped found, now known as Arnold & Porter. He argued the landmark Gideon vs. Wainwright case, in which the Supreme Court found in 1963 that poor defendants are entitled to free lawyers. President Lyndon Johnson, of whom he was a confidant, appointed him to the court in 1965. Four years later Fortas became the first Justice to resign under public criticism, amid disclosures that he had accepted $20,000 from a foundation controlled by former Client Louis Wolfson, who had been convicted of violating...