Word: lyndon
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...rest of the official party and assigning the 52 seats for guests and crew on board SAM (for Special Air Missions) 26000. (The code name Air Force One is reserved to any Air Force plane with the incumbent President aboard.) The aircraft was the same Boeing 707 on which Lyndon Johnson was sworn in, and which carried the body of John Kennedy from Dallas to Washington, D.C. Pleas for space came in by the dozens, including one from...
House Majority Leader James Wright studied the three Presidents with a bit of Texas melancholia. Twenty years earlier he had gone to a small Baptist church in Bonham to say a farewell to a great American, Sam Rayburn. On that day, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson had shared a cramped pew. Wright had never forgotten the moment, and thought he would never see anything like it again. But here before him was a similar scene. Nixon came to Wright's seat and shook his hand. Then he reached back into that crammed cerebrum and recalled...
This year's casualty totals threaten to rise no higher than the peaks of the ten-year period between 1957 and 1967, which began with a mild recession under Dwight Eisenhower, encompassed John F. Kennedy's famous expansionary tax cut in 1964, and ended just as the Lyndon Johnson boom years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came...
Throughout the postwar years the big leaders have had, according to former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a code of civility. For all his tough words about U.S. foreign policy, Brezhnev has never personally savaged an American President. Lyndon Johnson once heard that his Undersecretary of State, George Ball, had disparaged Charles de Gaulle. L.B.J. called Ball up and told...
...fair is fair. Reagan may be worth $3 million or $4 million, but Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon were millionaires too. Of the past seven Presidents, ranked by wealth and indulgence, Reagan would be next to the bottom, tied with Carter. Jerry Ford would be low man. At the top of the acquisitive scale would be L.B.J. by several lengths. Estimates of his fortune varied from $3.5 million to $20 million. He collected land, cattle, boots, cars, airstrips, telephones, helicopters and anything else around-with his money or the taxpayers'. It sometimes didn...