Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...height of the Watergate scandal, when Americans were appalled to learn that Richard Nixon had secretly taped conversations in the Oval Office, his defenders liked to argue that Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy had also taped at least a few White House talks. There were even old rumors that Franklin D. Roosevelt had occasionally asked a stenographer to eavesdrop on meetings...
...hands of a trigger-happy administration, a draft could be used to smooth the way toward ill-advised U.S. adventurism along the lines of Lyndon Johnson's Southeast Asia strategy of 1966 and 1967. Volunteers became rarer during that period, but LBJ could depend on a steady flow of conscripted bodies to keep the troop planes full...
Admirals and generals do not lose wars. Presidents do, or at least they fail to win them. Consider: Truman in Korea and Lyndon Johnson in Viet...
...federal spending and shrinking some social programs that had been expanding irresistibly since the early days of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. He also won a startling 23%, three-year cut in income tax rates. Reagan exerted the greatest mastery over Congress that any President has displayed since Lyndon Johnson. The Great Communicator skillfully convinced the public on TV, and legislators in one-on-one chats, that only by reducing the size of government and stimulating productivity in the private economy could inflation be curbed and healthy economic growth resume. Democrats and liberals wailed that Reagan's program...
...began tracking the performance of the 30 Dow industrial stocks through the first year of Republican and Democratic Administrations going back to William McKinley in 1901. LeFevre discovered that the Dow rose during the period for every Democratic President from the fourth Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson. The only exception in recent times was Jimmy Carter's first year, 1977, when the indicator dropped...