Word: lyndon
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...Voting Rights Act Stemmed from a special Congressional assembly called by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 to deal with the problem of Black disenfranchisement. A major triumph of the civil rights crusades, the law permanently banned literacy tests for voting purposes anywhere in the nation...
...refused to participate in the elections slated for the divided nation by the 1954 Geneva Conference." (In fact, Ho frequently and vocally sought to participate in the aborted election.) And, said the President, it was former President John F. Kennedy '40 who first sent U.S. marines to Vietnam. (Actually, Lyndon B. Johnson was the first President to dispatch marines to Southeast Asia...
...turn on the Mall," says Scruggs) and the place where the haunted Richard Nixon prowled in his dawn foray to the camp of the peace marchers. The monument will be just seven blocks from the White House, where John Kennedy guided the first hesitant step into Viet Nam and Lyndon Johnson watched the tense nights away, bound to battlefields and carriers by instant electronic data on boys like Jan Scruggs, whom he never knew but loved...
...Hooray! We've finally put Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...
Liberals and conservatives are joining forces now to warn of the dangers of the deficits. Walter Heller, a Democrat who was chief economic adviser to both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, argues that the Administration's deficit spree might induce such tight money that it would abort any recovery. Heller wants to shrink the deficit mainly by raising taxes in 1983, a step that could batter the economy even lower. Some conservative economists predict that the result of the red ink will be higher interest rates. Says Burton Malkiel, an adviser to Gerald Ford and now dean...