Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brightest, as four former architects of U.S. foreign policy sat together at a crowded press conference in Washington Last week. Spokesman for the group was Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. Flanking him were McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and the grand old man of U.S. diplomacy; and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of SALT...
...only were the consequences of this style of rule disastrous in the Bay of Pigs crisis--Kennedy deprived himself of the military oversight of the plan which would have pointed up its flaws--but they were also destructive for succeeding presidents: With all the Kennedy minions swarming around, Lyndon Johnson felt like an intruder. So he responded by assembling his own set of cronies, fashioning his own personal role...
...engaged me in a joshing Socratic dialogue. His observations seemed random but formed a pattern spelling out a series of directives for his subordinates. Both Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson had died within the previous two months, he noted. With them the old China policy and the old Viet Nam policy had been buried. "At that time, you opposed us. We also opposed you. So we are two enemies," he laughed...
...National Democratic Policy Committee, the group which sponsored Lyndon La Rouche's 1980 presidential bid, presented the attorney general's office with 50 pages of documents that purportedly link several scholars with terrorism, reported The High-lander. The University of California at Riverside campus newspaper...
...believe that the wealthy are loaded but human. The rich enjoy the same pleasures, but theirs are flavored with caviar. They back the same causes, but on a grander scale. Jock Whitney escaped from Nazi captors and "fought for freedom. "His paper, the now defunct New York Tribune, endorsed Lyndon Johnson for President. Demigods of glitter, the jet set lands now and then to mingle and be ogled...